A question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species ...

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

In place of pterosaurs, birds became the dominant animals in the skies and the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs allowed mammals to rapidly diversify and grow. While it would still be many ...

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

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

Comparing samples from more than 50 vertebrate species, some modern and some extinct, researchers found evidence that endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, was already widespread before ... Dinosaurs are ...