Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

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

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

The Mesozoic Era, spanning from approximately 252 to 66 million years ago, is often referred to as the “Age of Reptiles.” ...

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 ...

Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Ago. ... hailing from a deep branch in the family tree of frogs that stretches back to the Mesozoic era.

Scientists have identified a previously unknown ancient firefly species — dubbed Flammarionella hehaikuni — from a 99 million-year-old fossil within Burmese amber.

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 ...

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

Scientists have identified a previously unknown ancient firefly species — dubbed Flammarionella hehaikuni — from a 99 million-year-old fossil within Burmese amber.