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

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

About 66 million years ago, scientists believe, a city-size asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, precipitating a series of worldwide catastrophes: a massive earthquake, landslides ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

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

New habitat, environs, and food sources made some of the dinosaurs to start using their arms for a whole new purpose ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...

Published today (April 1) in the journal Palaeontology, the study presents new evidence that mammals were shifting toward a more ground-based lifestyle well before the end of the Cretaceous period.