Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to shape modern history.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida ...

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 ...

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

The fossils are described in a study published February 19 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and reveal what the predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia might have looked like.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million ...