Paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have published new research in the journal Vertebrate Zoology. The article describes a partial stegosaurian skull ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

The new study joins the lengthy debate about when the earliest animals arose—and what evidence is necessary to confirm a fossil as an animal. Over the last several decades, the use of ...

The skull of an ancient human ancestor was discovered by scientists along with 6,000 animal fossils of 36 species including ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...

But there was skeletal evidence of the first stages in the evolution of a trait that lets the beak move independently from the braincase, as seen in modern birds. The fossil possesses the only ...

When Jason Bourque first spotted the fossil, it looked small. Just half an inch wide, it sat quietly in a box. But something about it stayed with him for years. He could never quite let it go.

More than 300 million years ago, long before the age of dinosaurs, there lived a four-legged, clawed creature that had evolved to survive and reproduce entirely on land, away from the shark ...

Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals secrets of fossil formation without disturbing the decay of buried carcasses A new study published in Palaeontology has confirmed that X-ray ...

The fossil evidence suggests dinosaurs had at least small parasitesur quote goes here Professor Edmund Jarzembowski “The fossil evidence suggests dinosaurs had at least small parasites,” said ...

This unusual feature has been one of the key pieces of evidence that led some scientists to believe that hoatzins are evolutionary relics. However, recent studies suggest that these claws may have ...