A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

When the asteroid arrived at the end of the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs disappeared. But they weren’t the only creatures that were affected. “Tree dwelling mammals struggled after the asteroid ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

A new dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was discovered in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. This therizinosaurs member featured ...

Prehistoric insects encased in amber reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that dead-ended sometime after the mid-Cretaceous period. After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens ...

If you were to travel more than 120 million years back in time to the Early Cretaceous or Jurassic Period, you might see dinosaurs with striped tails and ruddy crests, primitive birds with ...

A unique parasitic wasp from 99 million years ago, preserved in Cretaceous period amber, featured a Venus flytrap-like ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...