As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the U.K. more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...

Recent research suggests that echidnas and platypuses originate from an aquatic ancestor, rather than a terrestrial one, as ...

Millions of years ago, iguanas somehow reached Fiji from America. Scientists believe they floated 5,000 miles on rafts of ...

In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

A coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," was spotted in eastern Indonesia in a rare sighting of a species once ...

These ancient creatures, often referred to as 'living fossils,' offer a rare glimpse into Earth’s evolutionary past ...

The fossils of Ravjaa ishii were unearthed in the Baynshire Formation, one of the Gobi Desert's fossil-rich ancient rock layers. The discovery was made during a joint expedition in 2019 by researchers ...

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

Climate modeling and clumped isotopes both revealed that winter temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes were ...