Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

While the non-avian dinosaurs are long gone, sharks are still going strong. They’ve been around longer than trees (which ...

Prior to this finding, the Devonian Period was believed to be a time of ... Long has been studying ancient fish fossils from the Mansfield district, where the slab was found, since 1980.

Recent fossil discoveries in Scotland posit that polar bears may have lived there during the Ice Age. It was found in the Rhynie chert level from the early Devonian period, and it is believed that ...

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown ...

As a glaciologist who thinks about ice a lot, rewatching the movie Frozen umpteen times with my six-year-old daughter ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...