Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, Chongqing. This remarkable find, dating back to the early Silurian Period, was ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of ...

A 20-year program partners with Michigan DNR to prevent poaching of the threatened species, which can weigh up to 200 pounds and live to be 100 years old.

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

According to experts, the two whale skeletons found are "among the most complete in Europe". View on euronews ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...