Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a decisive phase in their evolutionary history. It was in this ancient world ...

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, ...

Over the past tens of thousands of years, the La Brea Tar Pits in modern-day Los Angeles became the final resting place for ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New Zealand's birds. The find suggests the country's giant flightless geese ...

Learn more about a newly identified Ice Age toad species whose fossils sat unnoticed in a La Brea Tar Pits collection for decades. Scientists have studied the animals trapped in the hidden depths of ...

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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 ...