Entombed in amber for 99 million years, the smallest dinosaur fossil ever discovered is rewriting what we thought we knew ...

Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with ...

Countless species of insects have been around for hundreds of millions of years, including pests like cockroaches and beetles ...

Imagine a creature that watched dinosaurs rise and fall, endured the shattering impact of asteroids, and quietly survived as ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Did you know the first baby alligator ancestor was born billions of years ago? Learn more awesome facts about baby gators!

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park ...

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

New types of dinosaurs were appearing along with new types of birds. By now the three groups of mammals that we know today ...