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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...

The first place prize went to a collaborative project from Italy and Germany. Chromaplane uses two analog pickup coils to ...

Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the animals’ colours would have helped them blend into the night. Dark brown was in ...

Drilling of Koos-1EXP is expected to last nearly six months, as Pemex will eye 42 degrees API crude in Upper Cretaceous and ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...