Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...

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

It is now recognised that at least two main natural corridors for crossing the Pyrenees were frequented by prehistoric human ...

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

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during ...

An international team of paleontologists discovered a previously unknown species of ancient mammal, named Ravjaa ishii, in ...

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

Wollemi pines ( Wollemia nobilis) are part of the Araucariaceae family, which includes monkey puzzle trees. They are ...

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

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

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

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