Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true ...

Woolly mammoths were vital to early humans, shaping ecosystems and survival on the Mammoth Steppe. Their rise and extinction ...

The curious minds at What If take a journey through the Earth during the Cenozoic era. President Trump addresses the nation ...

The Cenozoic Era is a realistic animal survival game taking place during the rise of mammals, take control of a variety of animals and fight to survive among other players to reach the top of the ...

Mothers have the hardest job in the world. Caring for babies is full-time work, and this labor extends to the animal world.

Phorusrhacids, as they are known by their scientific name, were meat-eating birds that during the Cenozoic Era were at the top of the food chain. They had slender bodies, huge beaks and could run ...

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon, houses one of the longest and most complete fossil records of plants and animals from the ...

Using an advanced fossil discovery technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, researchers found elusive and ancient squid beak fossils proving that squids thrived while dinosaurs died.

According to the team from this study, only around 44 cicada fossils have been dated from the Cenozoic era beginning about 66 million years ago. “There are only very few fossil ...

For most of the Cenozoic era, local and continental measures of functional diversity differed, but surprisingly, during the first 10 million years of the era, immediately following the extinction ...

This Cenozoic Era shark had a mouth that spanned 8 to 11 feet and could weigh over 60 tons. The megaladon had rows of razor-sharp teeth that could inflict a bite force of more than 40,000 pounds ...

The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 million years ago marks the largest mass extinction in the history of the planet, which cleared room for the first dinosaurs to evolve. In ...