Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

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

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

While they're often overshadowed by more successful relatives like the trilobites, these animals survived for over 250 million years between the Carboniferous and the Late Cretaceous. With ...

Researchers in Mongolia's Gobi Desert have discovered a unique two-clawed dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, from the ...