Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

A QUARTER of a century ago, when first I began to study geology, it appeared to me that a predominance was given to the more recent rocks, such as the Pleistocene, Miocene, Eocene, Cretaceous ...

flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various insect groups also appeared, including bees, which helped increase the spread of flowering plants. And mammals now included ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Patagonia has unveiled a new species of titanosaur, a colossal gentle giant that ...

A team including UCL researchers has identified two new dinosaur species found in present-day Romania that lived shortly ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...