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

The discovery of Silescelida acristata, a fossil unearthed in Brazil, provides crucial insights into the origins of early archosauriform reptiles. This remarkable creature thrived at a pivotal time, ...

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 ...

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

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For the first time, researchers have discovered a new species of extinct amphibian from Ice Age Los Angeles at La Brea Tar Pits: a spadefoot toad they have named Spea labreae. Only one other extinct ...

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 ...