The regurgitated material from before the time of dinosaurs provides a rare window into the feeding habits of a prehistoric ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, a newly described species that was one of the largest, most feared land animals of its time – at least, if you were a fern. Hailing from 307 million years ago, this strange ...

What a way to be remembered.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of dinosaurs. These analyses of ...

About 110 million years ago, a sparrow-sized bird died with her egg still inside her body. That egg, crushed and flattened by pressure over time, is the first unlaid bird egg known to be preserved in ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

Researchers have identified a potential cause of molar hypomineralization (MH), or "chalky teeth," an underrecognized condition affecting 1 in 5 children worldwide. The discovery could lead to ...

The toilet brushlike specimen from a Canadian quarry hints at the evolutionary experiments that occurred during a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record. A 352-million-year-old fossilized tree, ...