Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

The newly discovered fish fossil fills a key gap in our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate diversity.

The tooth lodged in the snout indicates the T rex bite was delivered during combat to maintain control of a struggling animal ...

While the search for more Tanyka bones continues, the find is already helping researchers solve another puzzle—filling in the ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a ...

What is that how can a tooth survive the years and bear any intelligible mark of the molecules on its side when bone and other soft tissue have long since decayed? In the case of ancient-DNA, teeth ...

Fossil tooth lodged in skull helps reconstruct final moments of giant dinosaur that became prey - Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex ...