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This article examines the fastest dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era, exploring their anatomical structures, behaviors, and ecological significance. In This Article Sinocalliopteryx, a theropod from ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

Discover the first dinosaur tracks found in South Africa’s Western Cape, revealing 140-million-year-old footprints from ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

My research investigates the structure and dynamics of ancient ecosystems--particularly those of the Mesozoic Era (about 65 to 250 million years ago). I am interested in how ancient communities of ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem, scientists say.

It represents the divide between the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic Eras. Dr Mike Day is the curator of fossil reptiles at the Museum. He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the ...