A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, ch ...

Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission will send ISRO, Polish, and Hungarian astronauts to the ISS for the first time in history in ...

Heath, along with his peers, devised models that trace the evolution of dinosaurs backward in time. They studied fossil distribution, taxonomic data, and the prehistoric structure of Pangea.

While we can’t say for certain that animals experience time in the same structured way that we do, it’s clear that they do have some awareness of how long events take. From recognizing when you’ve ...