Scientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year ...

Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on their ...

Lauraceae, a globally significant woody plant family, encompasses ecologically critical and economically valuable species ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

Restoration images of Huadanosaurus sinensis (left) and Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis (right). Illustration: Courtesy of the ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...