One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with ...

DINOSAUR hunters have made a spectacular discovery which sheds new light on a giant "mega raptor" that stalked the Earth 120 million years ago. Palaeontologists in Australia came across the oldest ...

And sometimes, animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find.” “This research shows beyond doubt that organic biomolecules ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull that offers insight ... once ruled the food chain in the time after dinosaurs went extinct, preying on primates ...

But unlike the dinosaurs, this early ancestor of today’s waterfowl survived that mass extinction event, and a nearly complete skull has now been recovered by a special paleontological project on ...

Just last month, researchers announced the discovery of a huge, remarkably well-preserved dinosaur skull from this same region. The new species, dubbed Lishulong wangi, was an early relative of ...

Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta. The discovery could bring ...