Prior to this discovery, trace fossils from the Middle Jurassic in Asia had largely been limited to dinosaur and turtle tracks, with no documented evidence of amphibians.

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Yi qi is one of the strangest dinosaurs ever found, a small Jurassic creature from China that appears to have wing structures unlike anything seen in other dinosaurs. Fossils reveal an eerie ...

Scientists uncover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that may represent Earth’s earliest GPS, revealing how ancient ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

One of Earth’s first birds had modern bird-like mouth features that evolved to handle food efficiently and meet the energy ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1907, the Daily Eagle reported, “Fossil hunting is assuming the proportions of an industry, and, indeed, in respect of the search for prehistoric mammals, the semblance of a campaign.

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

A new dinosaur species discovered in Mongolia is making paleontologists rethink what they thought they knew about dino hands. This feathered creature, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, had only two ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

A tiny, plant-eating dinosaur about the same size of a chicken that occupied what’s now northern Spain some 125 million years ...