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

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Two species, believed extinct for thousands of years, were rediscovered alive in New Guinea, challenging our understanding of ...

With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth. Fossils discovered in Brazil show that ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

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.’ ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. 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 ...