Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

“With this new find, we’ve demonstrated these really tiny, feathered dinosaurs were using their wings for a kind of ...

Early childhood development is largely to blame. Toddlers start to develop a sense of self sometime between 18 months and 3 years of age. Naturally, this new sense of awareness of both themselves and ...

"It brings us into the realm of what humans can grasp," researcher Dennis Kent said. "These events happened in the span of a lifetime." ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of reptiles and frogs in India's Deccan plateau, dating back approximately 66.8 million ...

Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species suddenly disappeared. The wipeout ...