The study of fossils, known as paleontology is about examining old remains of plants, animals, and other life forms found in ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well ...

The fossils are from two extinct species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis each of them small creatures less than 12 inches long (but about the same size as the ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

A groundbreaking study conducted by Chinese scientists has shed new light on the origins of dairy fermentation practices ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Both scientific ‘red herrings’ and flaws in human logic led to inaccurate ‘Pompeii effect’ hypothesis.