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 ...

Scientists have discovered Spinosaurus mirabilis, a 40-foot semiaquatic predator with a blade-like crest, in Niger’s Sahara, ...

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 team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, identifying 91 previously unknown species that lived approximately 512 ...

Scientists have discovered Spinosaurus mirabilis, a massive "hell heron" dinosaur that rivaled T. rex and hunted fish in ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

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

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.