Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Around 450 million years ago, an arthropod was buried alive. Now, scientists have uncovered its fossil preserved in a ...

Scientists in China have just dug up 500-million-year-old embryos that will help us understand the developmental biology of ...

NAGOYA -- What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are ...

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery ...

Scientists have discovered 280 million-year-old fossil remains of a predator that gave rise to all mammals. This ancient animal, which does not yet have a species name, is the member of an ...

A high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of fossils spanning 2 billion years shows how a series of super ice ages ...

Fossils of mammals and reptiles have also been unearthed this year, including extinct animals such as ancient pandas and stegodon, which are related to modern elephants. According to the ...

The research team explained that Mallorca, at the time of the gorgonopsians, was part of the "supercontinent" of Pangea.