"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

Prado Vargas, a cave nestled in northern Spain, has unveiled 15 marine fossils. These specimens, dating back to the Late Cretaceous period, were transported over dozens of miles by Neanderthals.

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

The fossils were found in a geological formation of the early Cretaceous Period (about 110 million years ago) in Tanbasasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, which forms part of the Sasayama Group.

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...