Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.
The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments. Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250205131109.htm ...
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...
According to a new publication in the Journal of Paleontology, a juvenile pterosaur vertebrae fossil, commonly known as a ...