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 ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

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 ...

Because of high concentrations of particular biosignatures, finding worlds similar to Earth during the Mesozoic Era—when ...

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.

In 1933, two eye-witness claimed to have seen a prehistoric-like animal in the waters of a Scottish lake. In the following years, the truth would begin to unravel as more people claimed to spot this ...

The study stated that the mammal living with dinosaurs exhibited characteristics "suggesting a diet more in line with ...

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

In an electrifying discovery that has captivated Hong Kong and the wider paleontological community, Hong Kong authorities ...