A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...

An ancient tadpole fossil, the oldest ever found, was recently unearthed in Argentina, providing insights into the evolution of modern frogs.

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

Researchers confirm the terror bird fossil 20 years after its South American discovery, comparing the creature to a massive, ...

Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

This region is critical to the global understanding of mammal and monotreme evolution, and the study of Lightning Ridge fossils is still in its infancy. Liz and Jenni have about 80 years of ...