A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that massive volcanic eruptions 201.6 million ...

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

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

Researchers identified a new species, Minioolithus ganzhouensis, shedding light on theropod evolution in the Late Cretaceous.

Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

In 2021, researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of six remarkably well preserved dinosaur eggs near a construction site ...

“With this new find, we’ve demonstrated these really tiny, feathered dinosaurs were using their wings for a kind of ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

Some paleontologists argue the ancient footprints found in South Korea show flight may have evolved in multiple dinosaur ...

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

And although the band of ancient craters is the only physical evidence such a ring ever existed, life on Earth likely ...

Pigeons are particularly iconic in New York City, where they've been dubbed, among other things, "rats with wings." Such ...