Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient mammal from a small jawbone found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

In the Late Cretaceous, the region of South America that would one day become modern Argentina was a dramatic land indeed. Teeming with dinosaur life, the Candeleros Formation - located in what is now ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

According to George, the Central Valley is home to a number of significant fossil finds—including California's state dinosaur ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

In March, a group of paleontology students from Sul Ross State University embarked on a research trip to Big Bend National ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

An artist's illustration shows Deinosuchus riograndensis swimming with an early alligator relative in the wetlands of the ...

Figure 1. Life reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation fauna, showing theropod dinosaurs of various diets. Such dietary niche partitioning could have contributed to the ...

The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time periods called epochs. The Early Cretaceous Epoch lasted from 145 million years ago to 100.5 million years ago and the Late Cretaceous Epoch lasted from ...