Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.

The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer. It comes from the tail of a ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Researchers have wondered whether Praearcturus gigas was a giant crustacean called an isopod or some other creature. A new ...

A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains ever ...

, July 5 -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that is changing scientists' understanding of how birds evolved shorter tails, according to a study published online in the ...

Purgatorius makes a comeback in Colorado This early 2026 discovery deserves your undivided attention. Led by Dr. Stephen ...