Amber fossils unlock true color of 99-million-year-old insects
Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock's feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white...
Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, caused the dinosaur extinction, says study
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which...
Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem
When most of us think of dinosaurs, we envision large, lumbering beasts. However, these giants shared their ecosystems with much smaller dinosaurs, the smaller skeletons...
Early dinosaurs had soft eggs, says study
The first dinosaur eggs had a soft shell, say paleontologists from Yale and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The finding upends decades of...
Australia had gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs too, says study
North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus – now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The...
New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection
The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate...
These ancient crocodiles walked on two legs like dinosaurs
Scientists have been stunned to discover that some species of ancient crocodiles walked on their two hind legs like dinosaurs and measured over three...
Scientists discover what an armored dinosaur ate for its last meal
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armor-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what...
Scientists find rare pterodactyl fossil in the UK
The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United Kingdom. A fossil hunter recently...
Big theropod dinosaurs ate almost everything—including each other, says study
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 dinosaur bones from the Jurassic Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a 152-million-year-old fossil deposit in western Colorado, looking for bite marks. They found...