When we talk about prehistoric life, dinosaurs usually get all the attention. But the truth is, long before they came along, ...

When we think of the age of dinosaurs, we often picture huge reptiles like Tyrannosaurus rex or long-necked dinosaurs ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

In the middle of Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert, a team of scientists has made an exciting discovery: the fossil of a ...

A recent discovery in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, has unveiled a new mammal species that dates back to the Late Cretaceous ...

In this way, the age of dinosaurs never fully ended ... but also for mammals. Mammals first evolved from ancestors called therapsids during the late Triassic Period. These were tiny things ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

New research overturns the idea that dinosaurs were already dying out before the asteroid hit.

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...