Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Although the first Archaeopteryx fossil was discovered more than 160 years ago and the prehistoric bird has been well ...

That showed the earliest signs of an evolutionary trajectory toward the skulls of modern birds, which are more mobile than those of prehistoric birds, Dr. O’Connor said. In another lucky ...

But paleontologists still have questions about the Jurassic era animal’s anatomy and behavior ... valuable insights into the ancient dino-bird—paleontologists are particularly interested ...

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

If you have more than one child (fur or human), you know the struggle of making sure each gets a fair amount of attention so no one feels left out or overlooked. Sometimes, though, envy among siblings ...

That showed the earliest signs of an evolutionary trajectory toward the skulls of modern birds, which are more mobile than those of prehistoric birds, O’Connor said. In another lucky accident of ...

Cretaceous fossil shrimp from Jbel Oum Tkout, Morocco, registered at the Museum d’histoire naturelle de Marrakech. Credit: Sinéad Lynch – UNIL Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because ...