The 62-foot Kraken: A New Marine Overlord? In early 2026, an extraordinary discovery was made—one that absolutely deserves ...

Deep inside the storage rooms of modern museums, millions of historical artifacts sit silently waiting for their moment in ...

Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes ...

A new study of fossil teeth from 37 ancient mammal species suggests early placental mammals grew larger before developing ...

For decades, Mongolia's reputation in dinosaur research has rested largely on its spectacular Late Cretaceous fossils. Famous skeletons from the Gobi Desert have provided some of the most important ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

While early birds existed in a time period when dinosaurs dominated, they were feathered, capable of gliding or flying, but looked nothing like the birds we have today. Unlike birds like pigeons, ...

Photograph and skeletal reconstruction of the 150-million-year-old bird Zhengheornis buyu. [Photo provided to ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size came before both shape and function as diets diversified.

Picture this scene in a room. A child spends an hour arranging toy cars across the living room floor. Another one fills pages with dinosaur drawings. One ...

At a Cretaceous lake in what is now northwestern China, paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of ancient birds ...