The newest Jurassic installment is roaring into theaters. Meanwhile, Danielle Deadwyler is determined to defend her family's ...

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

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago. However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals.

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 ...

These crocodile-like beasts reached the Caribbean, outlasting mainland kin. Sebecids look straight out of the Age of Dinosaurs, but may have lived just 4 million years ago ...