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

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One ...

Anewly described reptile from New Mexico is giving scientists a fresh look at the evolutionary experiments that unfolded before dinosaurs came to dominate Earth. Named Labrujasuchus expectatus, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, we show these WA koalas were not simply stray populations of the modern koala. They represent a distinct species that has been hiding in ...

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where they fit in the tree of life remains a highly debated topic. The ...

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

An illustration of Cimolodon desosai on the tree with a fruit in its mouth. It was about the size of a golden hamster, the researchers said. It likely scampered on the ground and in the trees and ate ...

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 ...