Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

The northeastern gold rush town of Republic caters to fossil-obsessed road-trippers with the only public dig site in the state.

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia has provided ...

The piece of rock was initially discarded and ignored by a student during fieldwork at the fish fossil locality site in Antipolo, Rizal, in 2013. The fossil specimen isn't complet ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, with a ...