For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

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

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

That was life, and death, in the Cretaceous Period in the Canadian province ... that may have died in just such a scenario. The fossil, examined under a microscope and with micro-CT scans, has ...

Now, a fossil hunter in Denmark named Peter Bennicke has found the remains of this Cretaceous snack: fossilized vomit. The discovery was announced Monday in a statement from the natural history ...

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 toothless ...

ZEALAND, Denmark (WKRC) - An amateur fossil hunter made a historically ... years ago ate sea lilies that lived on the bottom of the Cretaceous sea and regurgitated the skeletal parts back up." ...