Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

In the scientific field, the task of knowing the past is fundamental. With the premise of investigating the evolution of species, one of the most important tasks in this sector is ...

The Great Swamp Conservancy, 8375 N. Main St., is encouraging all area bird-watchers and nature enthusiasts to come and enjoy three birding programs as the local environmental organization ...

Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, ...

The first seed-eating birds (a determination based upon bill shape) did not appear until about 120 million years ago, the early Cretaceous Period. So approximately 250 million years after plant seeds ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem, scientists say.