New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.

Scientists recreated a life-sized oviraptor and nest to investigate how these bird-like dinosaurs hatched their eggs.

As rising global temperatures continue to make life on Earth more difficult, lawmakers and others denying the climate crisis ...

Scientists in Taiwan examined the brooding behavior and hatching patterns of bird-like but flightless oviraptors.

What do we really know about how oviraptors—bird-like but flightless dinosaurs—hatched their eggs? Did they use environmental ...

Researchers reconstructed clutches of oviraptors, bird-like but flightless dinosaurs that lived between 70 and 66 million ...

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

A team of Moroccan researchers from the Faculty of Sciences at Mohammed I University in Oujda, in collaboration with international experts, has unearthed the skeletal remains of a previously unknown ...

Scientists have discovered new fossil teeth of the earliest known primate relative, Purgatorius. The find shows how ancient primates evolved and spread across the continent. This was reported on March ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

What do we really know about how oviraptors – bird-like but flightless dinosaurs – hatched their eggs? Did they use environmental heat, like ...