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

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

While Navaornis is one of the best-preserved bird fossils ever found from the Mesozoic Era, the researchers believe more ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

With a foreword by eminent paleontologist Luis Chiappe, Birds of the Mesozoic is a must-have book for bird lovers and anyone interested in paleontology. "Pictorially the book is a paradigm of sensory ...

To find such an intact fossil bird that dates back to the Mesozoic is almost unheard of, making the find one of the most ...

But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fossil of an ...

A fossil from the late Mesozoic period was discovered in Myanmar, containing an ancient species of firefly that roamed the ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

The team reconstructed the ancient creature’s swimming style by creating a bio-inspired control system for a plesiosaur-like ...