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

Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

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

A 29-millimeter-long dinosaur egg fossil discovered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, has been identified as the smallest ...

In the scientific field, the task of knowing the past is fundamental. With the premise of investigating the evolution of species, one of the most important tasks in this sector is ...

Palaeontologists in Victoria have identified a trio of ancient meat-eating dinosaurs that terrorised Southern Gondwana, including the world's oldest known megaraptorid - aka the 'mega raptor'. It's ...

Adult insects are known for their fascinating and complex eyes, which allow them to accomplish remarkable sensory feats when ...

The new Dinos in the Desert exhibit at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum helps give you a glimpse on how life was during the ...

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly? No. Ancient lacewings found in fossils from northern China are known as kalligrammatid ...