Deep in the heart of Borneo’s tropical rainforests, a rare and mysterious living fossil lurks in the shadows: the earless ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

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

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 ...

But hiding along a stretch of Interstate 90 in Central Washington is a geological marvel that rivals anything you’d find on ...

That’s the question at the heart of “The Beginning Comes After the End,” the new book by the prolific and critically ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

The Goblin shark has survived nearly unchanged since ancient oceans, earning its reputation as a true living fossil. This video walks through its discovery, its transparent skin that reveals blood ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

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

The remains of a "weird" creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked ...