BEIJING -- A research team from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) announced Thursday that it has recorded, for the ...

A newly identified mid-sized dinosaur from Mongolia dubbed the "Dragon Prince" has been identified as a pivotal forerunner of ...

Ancient fossils from Alaska reveal birds nested in the Arctic 73 million years ago, challenging previous assumptions about ...

The paper documents the earliest known evidence of birds nesting in polar regions. Each spring, the Arctic comes alive with the sounds of chirping and the arrival of fluffy hatchlings, as millions of ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on ...

a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period, about 80.6 to 77 million years ago, according to the paper, published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

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The Cretaceous period brought about the first diversification and appearance of flowering plants. Different organisms, such as insects, evolved as they took advantage of new food sources that ...

Scientists found 80 dinosaur footprints in China that show a meat-eating dinosaur walking, then speeding up for a bit and slowing down again.

AHe and ZHe datings are commonly used for low-temperature thermochronological dating and thermal history simulation and can reveal the driving mechanism of the exhumation process and rapid cooling.