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

In a recent study, paleontologists announced their discovery of an ancient mammal that lived around 70-75 million years ago ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

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

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

Rare fossils uncovered in Colorado show an unexpected swamp-dwelling creature lived among the dinosaurs millions of years ago ...

The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, 201.6 million years ago, has been considered by some to have been a fairly slow-burn event, driven by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. A new study says it ...

A team of paleontologists have discovered a fossil in northwestern Colorado that reveals a new kind of mammal that lived ...

For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been dubbed a “living fossil” because it evokes a bygone era, the age of dinosaurs.

(Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Ecologists describe the sturgeon as a living dinosaur. The large fish, armored with bony plates, traveled throughout North American waterways for millions of years ...

Colorado paleontologists found a rare fossil mammal, Heleocola piceanus, from 70-75 million years ago. The discovery shows some ancient mammals were larger than previously thought. A team of ...

And while a creature no bigger than 2 to 5 pounds “might seem tiny and insignificant,” especially compared to “much larger dinosaurs living at the time like tyrannosaurs or the horned ancest ...