The Yixian formation, located in what is now Liaoning Province, situated on China’s North-East coast, is a palaeontologist’s ...

The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of ...

Bolg is an early representative of Monstersauria, a clade of lizards that includes the Gila monster that still roams the ...

Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Scientists uncovered a brand-new species of dinosaur in a jar that has sat in museum storage for almost 20 years.

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...