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.

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species,Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is turning heads in the world of paleontology. This ...

The speedy, plant-eating creature lived in what is now Colorado roughly 150 million years ago, and its skeleton went on ...

The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur. A newfound fossil tail from this giant predator stretches our understanding of how—and where—dinosaurs lived.

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