Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out. The post ...

Whether strolling through our local farmer’s market packed full of people or buying some fresh berries at the grocery store, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

Some periods in Earth's history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few centimeters high. Exactly how they got so big is uncertain, but new research on a ...

Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing about 30 million years ago. By Sara Novak Around 145 million ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...