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

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

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed.

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

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 ...

Millions of years ago, England was a much different place than it is today. In the Late Eocene, England was rich with ...

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

A blade-crested Spinosaurus discovered in the Sahara is rewriting the final chapter of dinosaur evolution. A study published in Science reports the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a newly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in a remote region of ...

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