A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

The international research team, which included experts from University College Cork (UCC), discovered the new species of ...

Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped it tackle much larger ...

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

Scientists have uncovered the shocking cause behind the mass extinction that wiped out ocean life 200 million years ago.

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

A fossilized leg bone found in Africa is reshaping our ideas about the size of the first dinosaurs. The 225-million-year-old bone belonged to a mysterious reptile group called silesaurs, which lived ...

A newly uncovered 225-million-year-old fossil challenges everything we knew about early dinosaurs.

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic ...