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 ...

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 ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

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 ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...