These dinosaur eggs reveal secrets of ancient climate
Eighty-five million years ago, dinosaurs roamed a world filled with dramatic changes.
Volcanoes erupted frequently, oceans lost oxygen in some regions, and waves of extinctions...
Scientists identify new dinosaur from 125-year-old Welsh fossil
Sometimes scientific discoveries aren’t made in the field but in the quiet corners of museum drawers.
That’s exactly what happened in Wales, where paleontologists from...
Ancient mammoth microbes reveal the world’s oldest bacterial DNA
Scientists have made a remarkable discovery hidden within the remains of mammoths that roamed Earth more than a million years ago.
An international team led...
Why baby pterosaurs, not adults, dominate the fossil record
For two tiny flying reptiles, death came suddenly and violently 150 million years ago.
Now, thanks to remarkable fossils discovered in southern Germany, paleontologists have...
These 165-million-year-old insects show early leaf mimicry strategies
Around 165 million years ago, some insects in what is now northeastern China developed an extraordinary trick: they evolved wings that looked almost identical...
A deadly bone infection may have wiped out Brazil’s long-necked dinosaurs
In southeast Brazil, scientists studying the fossilized bones of giant dinosaurs have uncovered a deadly secret.
A group of sauropods—huge, long-necked dinosaurs that roamed the...
How rising ocean oxygen sparked an explosion of ancient marine life
Nearly 400 million years ago, life in the oceans changed forever.
New research shows that a rise in deep-ocean oxygen levels opened up previously uninhabitable...
Dinosaur fossils reveal clues that could help fight cancer
A new study published in the journal Biology suggests that advanced techniques used to study dinosaur fossils might help scientists better understand cancer.
Researchers from...
75-million-year-old dragonfly fossil fills evolutionary gap in Canada
For the first time, paleontologists have uncovered a dragonfly fossil from Canada’s dinosaur age, and it’s helping to close a major gap in the...
How huge meat-eating dinosaurs hunted in unique ways
Not all giant, meat-eating dinosaurs had the same kind of bite.
A new study has revealed that while the famous Tyrannosaurus rex had a skull...