The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Paleontologists uncovered fossils of a new species of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur named Chadititan calvoi in northern ...

But if the dinosaurs had been so successful prior to Chixculub, why did they never re-evolve? Evolution is a complex process ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now Antarctica during the late Cretaceous period.

The Edelman Fossil Park and Museum opens March 29 unveiling a century of dinosaur discoveries and a fossil quarry to dig in.

Look out the window long enough and you’ll see a modern-day dinosaur making use of its feathers to soar across the sky. It’s impressive, but is flying what feathers first evolved to do? And where in ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...