Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

A newly discovered dolphin species from 22 million years ago shows evidence of early echolocation, akin to modern dolphins' ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...