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An international team of American and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei Province in ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --While dinosaurs dominated dry land, a diversity of marine reptiles ruled ancient ocean ecosystems. Using a combination of modern ecological modeling techniques, researchers have for ...

This video plunges into the deadly oceans of the Mesozoic, where enormous marine reptiles dominated the food chain. Viewers discover creatures with jaws powerful enough to crush anything in their path ...

This documentary explores the unusual evolution of Dromaeosaurs, the strange carnivores that defied typical dinosaur design. Scientists reveal how their mix of feathers, oversized claws, and agile ...

Bony fishes are the most diverse of all extant vertebrate groups. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the group now provides new insights into its 250-million-year evolutionary history. More than ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

In the Mesozoic, the time of the dinosaurs, from 252 to 66 million years ago, marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs were top predators in the oceans. But their origins and early rise to ...