A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

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

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

That visibility comes with scrutiny. Mammals are among the best-studied organisms on Earth - and among the most threatened.

Arctic fossils, unearthed on Mount Marmier, reveal a surprisingly rapid recovery of marine life after the devastating Permian extinction 249 million years ago. Over 30,000 fossils, including ancient ...

Victorian coastal fossils are trending as Museums Victoria unearths a giant whale in Ocean Grove. Join the 2026 fossil hunt!

Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people picture biodiversity, they often ...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but the dinosaurs and pseudosuchian archosaurs reached this shape ...