Researchers Uncover Fossils of 150-Million-Year-Old Pliosaurs From the Jurassic Period, Helped Them to Conceptualize the Food ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represented ... Europe and Africa during the Jurassic Period roughly 150 million ...

Oct. 4, 2024 — A study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans Flying reptiles first came down from the trees in the mid-Jurassic Period ...

Scientists were able to date the tracks to the middle of the Jurassic Period, around 166 million ... tracks for millions of years for the fossil record, Richard Butler, a palaeobiologist at ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

The scientists date the prints to the Middle Jurassic Period and say they are part of ... “Along with other fossils like burrows, shells, and plants, we can bring to life the muddy lagoon ...

The preservation of such an extensive ancient trackway is exceptionally rare and was enabled by the unique environmental conditions of the Jurassic Period. The well-defined footprints suggest the ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the ... Even though direct fossil evidence of fuzzy Triassic ...