Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra ...

The bones found in Germany were so well preserved that researchers could see distinct morphological features that helped them identify the animal as a new species. The pterosaur had a “very ...

A complete specimen reveals how pterosaurs evolved from early forms into the massive giants of later periods. The pterosaurs ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found ... fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species ...

While skeletal fossils have long provided the primary evidence for studying human evolution, new data from fossil footprints ... an expert in foot anatomy, found the species' footprints reflected ...

It has now been described as a new species in a study ... best-preserved bird fossils ever found from the Mesozoic. The extraordinary preservation of the fossil even enabled the researchers ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African ... obtained for this type of fossil. This is a new species named Graulia branchiodonta ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus ...

An exceptionally preserved fossil fills in an enormous gap in the evolution of pterosaurs, the largest animals capable of ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a set of remarkable footprints found ... hominin species coexisted in the region. Previously, this had only been inferred from scattered fossil evidence.

A brand new species and genus of a legless reptile has been identfied in a fossil bed in Tunisia that slithered at an ...