An international team of American and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei Province in ...

When astronomers search for worlds that could possibly host life, they’re operating off of just one example: Earth. So far as we can tell, our specific cocktail of nitrogen, oxygen, and other trace ...

A microbiologist is proposing the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, ...

The Mesozoic Era, the Age of Dinosaurs, is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Reptiles. Not only were dinosaurs, which were reptiles, all over the continents, but reptiles also ruled the seas.

Picture a baby Brachiosaurus the size of a golden retriever, hunting for food with its siblings while dodging predators that would happily eat it. Meanwhile, its parents—towering over 40 feet tall—are ...

Christmas is full of festive fun for palaeontologists. After all, the Christmas tree in your living room would be at home with the dinosaurs Palaeontologists have a slightly different take on the ...

Scientists recently discovered the skull of an extremely tiny, bird-like dinosaur that could be the smallest known species of the Mesozoic era—the period in which giant dinos like brachiosaurus, ...

The Mesozoic era, traditionally renowned as the age of dinosaurs, also marks a period of remarkable innovation in the evolution of early mammals. Mammaliaforms diversified into a variety of ecological ...

When searching for exoplanets with potentially habitable atmospheres, astronomers really only have Earth as an example of what to look for. But a new study says that a past era of Earth may be a ...