What started as a regular geology field trip turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for 12-year-old Corbin Bullard.

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the ...

A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.

A newly identified prehistoric crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, was discovered alongside another croc species in ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

An international research team, including Dr. Nancy Mercado Salas from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity ...

After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, there is very little evidence of fish in the fossil record. Now, a ...

Download the Nature Briefing podcast 05 June 2026. In this episode: 00:23 Fossil evidence that spinosaurs had an aquatic ...

Around 66 million years ago, the end-Cretaceous extinction event reshaped Earth’s biodiversity, yet its impact on marine fishes remains debated due to gaps in the fossil record. In new research, ...

Taking a closer look at the skulls of these enormous predatory dinosaurs revealed an intriguing clue.