The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

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

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

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 ...

Big Bend National Park contains fossils from over 90 dinosaur species, some of which are unique to the park. A giant bone from North America's largest dinosaur was found in West Texas.

Around 10 centimeters in length, the fossil of a type of scorpion species that existed around 125 million years ago has been discovered in Chifeng, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ...

Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Ago Sir David Attenborough calls it “one of the strangest of all Asian creatures.” Rachael Funnell ...

The scarcity of three-dimensional fossils from the Mesozoic Era, spanning roughly 252 to 66 million years ago, has significantly limited our knowledge.

A dearth of three-dimensional fossils from the Mesozoic Era—a geologic period that lasted from around 252 million years ago ...

Researchers have identified a remarkably well-preserved fossil bird, roughly the size of a starling, from the Mesozoic Era. The complete skull has been preserved almost intact: a rarity for any fossil ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs (Archaeopteryx) and modern birds.