What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.

The oceans, vast and largely unexplored, harbor a world teeming with life, some of which predate the age of dinosaurs. These ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

Across opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean more than 3,700 miles apart, researchers have uncovered footprints left by dinosaurs that could have roamed from Africa to South America when the ...

After 15 years of exploration, scientists discover an intact prehistoric Palau nautilus in deep water, a fascinating marine ...

But some scientists say that, slow or not, this repositioning of the world's landmasses was disastrous for dinosaurs. As continents heaved upward, pushed by the movement of tectonic plates, ocean ...

This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass extinction, the causes of which are still hotly debated. Many large land animals were wiped out but ...

Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. More than 260 footprints were discovered in Brazil and in Cameroon, showing where ...

now separated by thousands of kilometres and an ocean thanks to a geological process called plate tectonics. “When dinosaurs first appear in the fossil record, all the Earth’s continents were ...

The giant ocean called Panthalassa surrounded Pangaea ... But perhaps the biggest changes came with the evolution of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around 230 ...

now separated by thousands of miles and an ocean thanks to a geological process called plate tectonics. "When dinosaurs first appear in the fossil record, all the Earth's continents were part of ...

Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres ...