A 2020 study found, for example, that bats were the main pollinators of pitayas (dragon fruit), a major crop in central ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, paleontologists unearthed a 93-million-year-old crocodile fossil in Queensland, Australia. The ...

The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured about 3 meters long, weighed approximately 260 kilograms and lived ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of two unknown conifer species dating back 100 million years in central-western ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

The study utilized limb bone fossils to reveal that ecological changes in the late Cretaceous ... during the period influenced the evolution of mammals. Study reveals how plant evolution shaped ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle.

The findings suggest that mammals were adapting to terrestrial life well before the end of the Cretaceous period. The team discovered ... the spread of flowering plants, known as angiosperms ...