Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

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

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...