A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

A newly described sauropod dinosaur from Thailand stretched an estimated 27 meters long and carried a body mass of roughly 27 tonnes, the equivalent of about five adult African elephants. Named ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Germany and the UK, have described a new species of ancient marine crocodile, Enalioetes schroederi. Enalioetes lived in the shallow ...

A team of researchers from University College London and Thai partner institutions has formally named the largest dinosaur ...

A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs and co-occurring animals were distributed across the landscape, how they ...

Two new species dating back to the Early Cretaceous Period were recently discovered in Sevier County in southwest Arkansas. One is a small skink researchers named Sciroseps pawhuskai and the other is ...

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A class of two-legged carnivorous dinosaur dubbed noasaurids are said to have existed in later half of the Cretaceous Era, but our understanding of their global distribution has always been ...

The discoveries of two new species serve both to underscore the variety of fossils found at the Arkansas site, including dinosaurs, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, and to reinforce the overall ...