For fossil hunters, locating a well-preserved animal is always exciting, and that was certainly the case when Chris Moore located the intact bones of an ichthyosaur some 24 years ago. He explained ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to about 215 million years ago has been described from the U.K. It has been called ...

New findings challenge previous classification But in an article published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, a team led by La Trobe University adjunct Dr. Jesse Martin found that ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil reveals a newly discovered dinosaur covered in unusual spikes scientists have never seen before.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - For nearly a century, scientists thought that a set of dinosaur fossils belonged to a specific species known as the “noble lizard.” But now researchers have discovered the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from ...

Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to around 215 million years ago has been described from the UK. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...