New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

A site in Burgos reveals a new tiny species of dinosaur from 125 million years ago. An international team of paleontologists has announced a discovery that changes the way we understand the evolution ...

A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with backward-curving fangs that would have hooked into flesh to rip it open, the ...