While both groups survived as a whole, many species went extinct. Among the casualties were the shastasaurid ichthyosaurs, a ...

Researchers discover 50-million-year-old animal from Tunisia could crack snail shells with its powerful jaws. The discovery ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species − Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei − ...

A normal hiking trip turned into a day of archaeological discovery for a couple who found prehistoric footprints dating back ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...

Claudia Steffensen and her husband were hiking in Valtellina Orobie Mountain Park, in Lombardy, Italy, when she made the ...

When the Earth's climate changed millions of years ago, dinosaurs were more adaptable to new food sources than their picky ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

NEW YORK — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate ...

Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world.

Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth. The ...