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Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

While it would still be many millions of years before ancient human relatives would appear, evidence of some of the earliest primate-like mammals comes from the Palaeogene. Dinosaurs are the largest ...

Kids of all ages (and I include adults here) are fascinated by dinosaurs that break records for the biggest, the longest, the scariest or the fastest.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern ... This meant that differences ...

"By studying carbon in the animal, we can reconstruct carbon in the environment to understand what kinds of vegetation lived there," Ward said. Meanwhile, oxygen tells scientists about climate ...

Improved technologies, such as biomechanical modeling and x-ray imaging, have allowed scientists to gain a deeper understanding of how this apex predator lived.