For decades, the extinction of the dinosaurs has usually been pictured as a slow collapse. An asteroid struck Earth, sunlight faded behind dust, temperatures changed, and ecosystems gradually ...

Reconstruction of the forest floor of the 74.6 million-year-old Dori’s Tuff flora, featuring hypothetical angiosperm–disperser interactions. The plants depicted, including the foliage, fruits, seeds ...

A Coryphodon sp. tooth, an extinct animal from the Pantodonta group. This tooth was not used in the study. (Image Credit: Ryan M. Bolton/Shutterstock) The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which ...

Scientists say the findings help fill a major gap in the fossil record from Asia during the first 10 million years of the "Age of Mammals" A collection of ancient fossil teeth is helping scientists ...

The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the mass extinction Shutterstock Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from 37 ...