Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from these plants challenge this idea.

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Germany and the UK, have described a new species of ancient marine crocodile, Enalioetes schroederi. Enalioetes lived in the shallow ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

For centuries, humans have told stories about the legendary Kraken, a huge octopus that coud sink ships whole. But roughly ...

"These krakens must have been a fearsome sight to behold." Scientists just classified an enormous octopus that likely ruled ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle. Reading time 2 minutes The end-Cretaceous ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Two new species dating back to the Early Cretaceous Period were recently discovered in Sevier County in southwest Arkansas. One is a small skink researchers named Sciroseps pawhuskai and the other is ...

A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs and co-occurring animals were distributed across the landscape, how they ...

The discoveries of two new species serve both to underscore the variety of fossils found at the Arkansas site, including dinosaurs, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, and to reinforce the overall ...