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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...