Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, ruling prehistoric skies for millions of years. Fossils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of what Prototaxites may have looked like 400 million years ago. - Matt Humpage Some 400 million years ago, ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early mammal relatives.

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A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens that force a rewriting of the opening chapters in the history of complex ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a previously unknown genus and species of Pliocene mole. The fossil was unearthed at ...

Amateur collector Kent Gibson in Newport has amassed what is likely the state's largest private fossil collection. His finds, including rare specimens, have advanced the scientific understanding of ...