A tiny gecko trapped in Myanmar amber for almost 99 million years has given scientists a rare look at one of the oldest known ...

Herbivorous dinosaurs, rather than just post-extinction mammals, were likely the universe's first major fruit-eaters and seed ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Fossils often preserve bones well enough to reveal the shape of an ancient animal, but traces of soft tissues are much less ...

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Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

Morocco has recovered nine rare fossilized reptile teeth dating back between 66 and 72 million years after French authorities ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a marine creature, minding its own business at the bottom of a Cretaceous sea, munched on some sea lilies—then didn’t feel too great. Now, a fossil hunter in Denmark named ...

A fossil crocodile that sat in a Spanish museum for over a century just gave up secrets no researcher had ever suspected were there, thanks to a technique that makes hidden soft tissue glow.