While dinosaurs roamed, a giant insect evolved wings for aerodynamic flight to defend itself against ancient birds, a new ...

Earth. A massive asteroid impact led to the extinction of diverse life forms from the planet, including the mighty dinosaurs.

But there are some differences. The antennae of Flammarionella (named for French astronomer Camille Flammarion) are densely ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

It’s named, fittingly, the Poozeum, and it opened earlier this year in Williams, Arizona, a small town about an hour south of ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

A new species of fossil mammal about the size of a muskrat, which was found in Colorado, lived during the age of dinosaurs.

Six complete eggs have been found in a partially preserved clutch in the Ganzhou Basin, China, which the discovery team reports are the smallest dinosaur eggs ever found – at least if you don’t count ...

The study stated that the mammal living with dinosaurs exhibited characteristics "suggesting a diet more in line with ...

The new mammal lived in Colorado 70 to 75 million years ago -- a time when a vast inland sea covered large portions of the ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

A team of paleontologists working in northwest Colorado have discovered Heleocola piceanus, a mammal that was alive during ...