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

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

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

These newly discovered crocodyliform eggs suggest a shift toward semi-aquatic lifestyles and humid nesting sites.

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, but it’s still a stretch to associate the short work with the Brontosaurus ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...

Tyrannoroter had specialized teeth to pulverize plants It lived 307 million years ago during Carboniferous Period Its skull was found in Canada's Nova Scotia province Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists ...

Some animals were known only through fossils and assumed extinct for millions of years. The video examines five species whose unexpected rediscovery challenged scientific certainty. Visuals focus on ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...