"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 ...

A known treasure trove of Early Cretaceous fossils has turned up a never-before-seen species of scorpion that lived around 125 million years ago. The venomous scorpion was larger than many ancient — ...

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

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

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

In the hellscape left by the asteroid, what gave the ancestors of modern birds an edge over their Cretaceous cousins? It’s a tough nut to crack, given how rare birds are in the fossil record.

All six fossils came from the same deposits in China, but the species lived at different times ranging from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, around 165 million to 120 million years ago.

Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was like back then and the animals and plants that called our planet home. The Cretaceous is a ...

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.

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 ...