The class of marine animals known as cephalopoda – which today includes squids, octopuses, and cuttlefishes – could have been around on Earth 30 million years earlier than previously thought, according to new research.
The final chapter of dinosaur history is a tale stretching across two very different worlds, each a vast supercontinent dominated by its own unique mix of predators and herbivores.
A newfound species of nothosaur may have had a much different lifestyle from its larger kin
Fossils recovered from Antarctica in the 1980s may belong to the largest flying bird ever, a new study has found.
Roughly 80 million years ago in the shallow inland sea that once split North America into eastern and western land masses, a fearsome 10-meter-long (33-foot-long) marine reptile with powerful jaws and tremendous bite-force was one of the apex predators.
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery by Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College, fills a major void in the ape fossil record and provides important new evidence about when the ancestors of today’s gibbon migrated to Asia from Africa.
Paleontological research has confirmed a series of recently discovered fossils tracks are the oldest recorded tracks of their kind to date within Grand Canyon National Park.
Discovery from Middle Triassic sheds new light on ocean predators millions of years ago
Palaeontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a 70 million-year-old carnivorous fish in Patagonia.
Patrick Nelson did not know exactly what he was looking at, but he knew it was special.
