But the new fossil is dated to between 270 and 280 ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine teeth." ...

Remarkably, the fossil seems to date to around ... it a little hard to be completely definitive that it's the oldest saber-toothed animal found so far because there's a chance it might be about ...

The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ... ruled as apex predators. These animals, neither fully mammals nor fully reptiles, exhibited a unique anatomy. Their legs, positioned beneath their bodies ...

The physical differences between the earliest known fossils and those from the dinosaurs that lived much later suggest that animals had already been evolving for some time. Paleontologists believe ...

Researchers involved with the study uncovered new answers at Grăunceanu, a site that lies south of the Carpathian Mountains in a river valley that is rich in fossils. Looking for Hominin Evidence ...

They may not be the oldest animals on Earth ... Its evolutionary history positions it as a “living fossil,” since it is the only surviving member of the entire lizard family Lanthanotidae ...

But fossil discovery in Wyoming is rewriting that story. Paleontologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have unearthed the oldest dinosaur ever found in North America – a creature they ...

The fossils were found in Mallorca ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears,” says Angielczyk. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine ...

The fossil was from the early Jurassic period about 190 million years ago. But being the first does not mean it is the oldest. That title goes to a marine animal called the placoderm, also called ...

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and ...