Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...
A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...
A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...
To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...
Around 110 million years ago, two small pterosaurs about the size of modern seagulls were flying over a lake or river, likely ...
From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...
Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...
The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...
A discovery in a Central Texas cave is challenging long-held assumptions about which species lived in the region during the Ice Age. Fossils from large, lion-sized animals suggest a more complex ...
Most have been dated to the Pleistocene era, between 130,000 and 90,000 years in age, using a technique that measures how ...
A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...