The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of distinctive ...

A study led by the University of Leicester has linked fossilized tracks of flying reptiles to the specific animals that created them. Fossilized footprints dating back more than 160 million years have ...

Prof Manthi digs evidence from the ground to explain human origin in a country deeply rooted in religious beliefs.

Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils ...