The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

Only one specimen of Alcovasaurus has ever been found, named for the tiny Wyoming town of Alcova, where it was discovered ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

After we reported on a crack in Gertie the Dinosaur’s tail at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the broken tail fell off.

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

Jack Horner, a lecturer and presidential fellow, has left the university after a series of documents detailed his association ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester, an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, is shedding fresh light on how the earliest known primate ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

Netflix new dino-themed original production unites a stunning team behind the cameras to become the definitive dinosaur ...

Spain discovers four 72-million-year-old dinosaur eggs in Guadalajara, preserved like authentic “time capsules.” ...