Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert ...

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

The Musée des dinosaures de Mèze has announced the discovery of about 100 dinosaur eggs dating back approximately 72 million ...

“Mesozoic” means “middle life,” and this was the time of the dinosaurs. This era includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods — names that may be familiar to you. It ended with a massive ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Scientists uncovered a rare baby dinosaur in South Korea and named it Doolysaurus after a famous cartoon character. Using ...

Some paleontologists wonder how many species of dinosaurs are left for us to discover, and how many fossils of them are out ...

After months of carefully digging up the fossilised eggs, researchers say the site is one of the world’s most important of ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor ...