Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

A state-of-the-art fossil discovery technique shows that squids originated and quickly rose to become dominant predators in ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

What's more, the firefly fossil, which measures less than 1 centimeter long, is morphologically different from the other specimen identified in 2015, showing that the light organs of Mesozoic ...

In fossils from the Mesozoic Era, traces of colour patterns are very rarely observed. However, the investigation with UV light of scallops from the Triassic period -- right from the beginning of ...

Examinations of the fossils indicated that birds have been nesting in the Arctic environment for 73 million years. The result was 25 million years older than what was previously known.

Fossil reveals unknown species that lived during the dinosaur era. By Taylor Nicioli ... at least 100 million years ago in a July 2022 study that analyzed the first Mesozoic firefly fossil that ...

A dearth of three-dimensional fossils from the Mesozoic Era—a geologic period that lasted from around 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago—has long hindered our understanding of the ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the time of dinosaurs, a new study finds.