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

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

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

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

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

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

A newly-discovered dinosaur, likened in size to a small dog, has gone on show at the Natural History Museum for the first ...

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, ...