When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Research published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the discovery of three new species of ancient creatures from the dawn of modern mammals, and hints at rapid ...

A new species of giant penguin - about 1.6 metres tall - has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury. The discovery of Crossvallia waiparensis, a monster penguin from the ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that ...

The diversity of mammals on Earth exploded straight after the dinosaur extinction event, according to new research. New analysis of the fossil record shows that placental mammals, the group that today ...

A recent crossword puzzle clue asking for the eon we inhabit made me realize that I didn’t know much about terms for times. It has become fashionable to say ours is the anthropocene era, with ...

It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last. By Jack Tamisiea Mammals are the brainiacs of the animal world. The brain of the sperm ...

It was 39 summers ago that I first came to the Bighorn Basin in northern Wyoming to do paleontological fieldwork. I was just out of high school then, had no experience collecting fossils and felt ...

A new species of giant penguin -- about 1.6 metres tall -- has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury in New Zealand. A new species of giant penguin -- about 1.6 metres tall - ...