WASHINGTON-In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, ...

The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers have discovered. The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic ...

Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and classification of four new ichnotaxa (fossilized trace taxa) from the Eocene ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral ...

These are long walls of mud and sand that cut into older rock that has been fractured, and do not usually contain fossils. Ancient Earth movements, probably connected with the initial unzipping of the ...

The last-ditch struggle of Tongtianlong limosus as it was mired in mud is seen in an undated artist reconstruction. Zhao Chuang/Handout via REUTERS In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ...

The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered. Professor Rex Parrington from Cambridge ...