Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

Giant 'cow of the Cretaceous' discovered almost 100 years ago identified as new duck-billed dinosaur Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now ...

A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart -- genetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ...

New research from Adelaide University suggests the power of the ancient Tethys Ocean might have shaped Central Asia's ...

The Cretaceous Period witnessed a remarkable diversification of marine reptiles, among which plesiosaurs featured prominently. These secondarily aquatic reptiles adapted to a range of ecological ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

(Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain and lowered its ...

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, have been vanishingly rare in Europe while being widespread across Asia and North America, until now. New ...