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

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

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 ...

An almost perfect intermediate between Archaeopteryxand modern birds has been discovered with its skull preserved in ...

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 ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

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 ...