The scientific study, rewrites the world's only flying mammals' family tree, contradicts long-held assumptions of where the species arose.
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Plesiosaurs headed up river deltas 160 million years ago to throw up indigestible parts of their marine meals, suggests a new study.
Until now, all confirmed Diplodocus specimens had come exclusively from the Morrison Formation in the western United States.
Researchers have found clues that help explain why birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived extinction.
The fossil, known as Charnia, looks more like a fern than anything we would recognize as an animal today.
Analysis have shown how ancient bird bones can act as "chemical archives" of changing weather conditions in Antarctica.
Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.
Scientists found deformed head shapes in fossilized humans show their infants were probably just as helpless as babies born today.
A trackway in northern Kenya preserves a "snapshot" of how individuals of an ancient hominin species interacted with one another.
Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.