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

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

Analysis - Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described ...

The first place prize went to a collaborative project from Italy and Germany. Chromaplane uses two analog pickup coils to ...

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

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

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

Drilling of Koos-1EXP is expected to last nearly six months, as Pemex will eye 42 degrees API crude in Upper Cretaceous and ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

Palaeontologists in Victoria have identified a trio of ancient meat-eating dinosaurs that terrorised Southern Gondwana, including the world's oldest known megaraptorid - aka the 'mega raptor'. It's ...