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 ...

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

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 ...

Fossils found in north-west Queensland have given palaeontologists "direct evidence" of the behaviour of prehistoric animals in the Eromanga Sea 100 million years ago. This is one of the clearest — ...