The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

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A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...