In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid — not volcanoes
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of...
How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land
Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution of fins as they began to transition...
Earth was stressed even before dinosaur extinction
Earth was already experiencing carbon cycle instability before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, shows new study.
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells...
Human-sized penguins ruled waters after dinosaurs died
What waddled on land but swam supremely in subtropical seas more than 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs were wiped out on sea...
Scientists discover world’s oldest comma shrimp
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest “comma” shrimp, a tiny crustacean shaped like its punctuation namesake.
The 90-million-year-old creature fills in a major evolutionary gap...
Legged snake fossils shed light on how snakes got their bite and lost their...
New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles.
The fossil discoveries published in Science Advances...
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
A new study has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
The revelation...
Scientists discover the ‘ghost’ footprints from Pleistocene era
Invisible footprints hiding since the end of the last ice age – and what lies beneath them – have been discovered by Cornell researchers...
New fossils show life’s recovery after dinosaur-killing asteroid strike
A newly discovered collection of fossils reveals how life recovered after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at...
Paleontologists discover complete theropod dinosaur specimen
The discovery of a nearly complete dromaeosaurid Saurornitholestes langstoni specimen is providing critical information for the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, according to new research...