A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...

A collection of fossil teeth from southern China is shedding new light on one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out. The post Pompeii find reveals plants flourished before dinosaur extinction ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

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

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from these plants challenge this idea.

The end-Cretaceous extinction created space in the ecosystem for birds, but also for mammals. Mammals first evolved from ancestors called therapsids during the late Triassic Period. These were tiny ...

Herbivorous dinosaurs, rather than just post-extinction mammals, were likely the universe's first major fruit-eaters and seed ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began. The fossil record tells us ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...