A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back ...

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, ...

Scientists in Argentina discovered the oldest known long-necked dinosaur, Huayracursor jaguensis, revealing a much earlier ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western ...

The incomplete skull of Nicrosaurus (formerly “Belodon“), one of the earliest-recognized phytosaurs. It is missing teeth and it did not have an extended downward extension of the palate (the outline ...

Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Scientists found that specific lichen species act as natural indicators of exposed dinosaur fossils, creating signatures that ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Toddler hominin has arms for swinging and legs for walking. The specimen, which is the oldest and most complete juvenile of a human relative ever found, has features that stand as striking examples of ...