An83-million-year-old reptile fossil unearthed in southern France has been officially recognized as a new species and named ...

The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is famous because adults look like overgrown babies, or tadpoles, retaining juvenile features as adults and capable of remarkable regeneration of lost limbs ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The earliest known example of a plant-eating reptile has been found in the fossil record in southern New Mexico, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History said. The museum made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Labrujasuchus expectatus, a new species of Shuvosauridae from Late Triassic rocks of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

New fossil reveals a bird-hunting, four-winged microraptor that expands scientists' understanding of dinosaur flight ...

The lost koala: New fossil species was hiding in plain sight for 100 years by Kenny Travouillon, Helen Ryan, Kailah Thorn, Natalie Warburton, The Conversation edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by ...

The fossilized skull of the newly discovered species with a "parrot-like beak" was unearthed by paleontologists in southern Brazil in 2020. But it may be related to an ancient reptile previously found ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret River by Lindsay Hatcher, an avid caver. There was something a bit odd about ...