The asteroid impact that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs destroyed global forests.

When the dinosaurs died, so did forests — and tree-dwelling birds

Pterodactyls

Study casts doubt on traditional view of pterosaur flight

Apalone spinifera spiny softshell turtle

Genome structure of dinosaurs discovered by bird-turtle comparisons

Cambrian predator and stem-lineage euarthropod Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess Shale, Canada.

Major fossil study sheds new light on emergence of early animal...

Stygiopontius senokuchiae

Japanese student discovers new crustacean species in deep sea hydrothermal vent

Establishing a time scale for 10 million years ago

Oviraptorosaurs

How does a one-tonne dino hatch its eggs?

sea-lilies

Major shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later

Fossil record reveals changes in Earth’s movement and rotation

Magyarosuchus fitosi

Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree

Hyneria lindae

25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot...

Ichthyornis dispar

Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses

A Dickinsonia fossil animal of the Ediacaran era.

Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitats

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

This figure shows microwear patterns on the teeth of three theropods.

Dinosaurs’ tooth wear sheds light on their predatory lives

Microbes in a sub-seafloor aquifer feast on carbon in fluids flowing through the permeable rock.

Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor, allowing microbes to consume...

Peritresius martini turtle

New ancestor of modern sea turtles found in Alabama

Toipahautea whale

New species of ancient whale identified and named by Otago palaeontologists

Mammoth

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans

A scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over.

Dinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!

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