Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

Fossils of alvarezsaurid dinosaurs show bird-like air sacs in their bones. Scans revealed hollow spaces connected to their ...

Now that a "de-extinction" company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could ...

"This species has been an ornithological enigma ... techniques to extract and sequence ancient DNA from Caribbean bird fossils. In an early proof of concept using the fossils of an extinct ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Fossils from the late Cretaceous are less likely to be discovered, say researchers, primarily because of fewer locations with ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when ...