A new mosasaur species has been identified from a 70-million-year-old fossil found in Egypt’s Western Desert. Its unusually ...

The discovery of Silescelida acristata, a fossil unearthed in Brazil, provides crucial insights into the origins of early ...

A fossil fragment that disappeared for around two decades has helped scientists identify a previously unknown reptile that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Triassic fossil reveals a two-legged, beaked reptile that evolved along the crocodile lineage. (CREDIT: Jorge Gonzalez, ...

Scientists from China, Europe and the U.S., including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have described a fossil ...

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli is the first fossil salamander to be formally identified in Mexico, revealing that axolotls have inhabited the country for millions of years. Researchers at the Zaragoza School ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place it closer to living apes than any known East African species ...