A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

A new approach using the hyoid bone uncovered distinct growth patterns. A new study has brought clarity to a long-running ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

Twenty-thousand years ago or so, a wounded male mammoth lay down in ancient California savannah and died. About 30 years old, not fully grown, one of its 15-foot-long tusks had been dealt a mighty ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...