Opening March 29, the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum teaches how our world continues to evolve. USA TODAY has an exclusive ...

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.

Scientists from the Western Australian Museum believe the discovery has “significance beyond the bone itself”. When Dr Mikael ...

The history buffs among you will know that the UAE’s largest city was at one point a small fishing village in the desert. It is fascinating to look at old Dubai in pictures and see just how much the ...

The team also discovered another fossilized bird wishbone from the same site, but it likely dates to the Cretaceous Period (66 million to 145 million years ago). A photograph and interpretive line ...

Female bears usually go into estrous, or heat, in May or June. Some will experience a second cycle in July or August. They reach maximum fertility during a 3 to 5-day period, though their cycle lasts ...

As detailed in a study published late last month in the Journal of Paleontology, the fossil sheds light on animal dynamics during the Cretaceous Period. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived ...

The best period dramas whisk viewers to times and places that feel a world apart from the way we live now. They’re filled with intriguing historical details: Corsets! Elbow-length gloves!

A QUARTER of a century ago, when first I began to study geology, it appeared to me that a predominance was given to the more recent rocks, such as the Pleistocene, Miocene, Eocene, Cretaceous ...

I've spent a few days snapping pictures of friends, gardens, mansions and teacups (born to live in the world of Downton Abbey, forced to live in the modern day), and I've picked out a few of my ...

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 ...