“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

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

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

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 ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

Scientists in Patagonia unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the world's tiniest ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, ...

A fossilised lobster claw has inspired a lifelong passion for palaeontology.

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