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

Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

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

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation.

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

He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...

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

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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, ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...