The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape ...

“ Tanyka is a little like a platypus, in the sense that it was a member of the stem tetrapod lineage that remained even after newer, more modern tetrapods evolved,” Jason says. “It was a living fossil ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

An ancient snake fossil discovered in England reveals a strange new species and clues to the origins of modern snakes.

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

The earliest sponges to live on the earth were soft and skeletonless pioneers - rewriting the story of the origin of animal ...