Around 250 million years ago, crocodiles and their archosaur relatives faced a significant extinction event. Their survival ...

The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

Seashells are scattered across a hillside beside an Arizona highway, and they’re older than the dinosaurs. These little brachiopods and lacy bryozoans lived in a warm, shallow sea about ...

Six dinosaur footprints in Udon Thani date back about 120 million years and offer fresh evidence of Thailand’s prehistoric wildlife. Thailand’s Department of Mineral Resources confirmed Udon Thani’s ...

Record numbers of baby sturgeon have been recorded on the Rioni River in Georgia, as efforts to conserve stocks of these critically endangered fish appear to be paying off. A project led by the nature ...

A tiny lizard tail fragment preserved in Burmese amber provides the first direct physical proof that ancient reptiles ...

A mosasaur leaps from the water to snatch prey in this artist’s depiction. A Rutgers-led study suggests differences in the ...

Insects belong to a broader group of six-legged animals called hexapods. This group also includes other less well-known, ...

White Sands National Park in Alamogordo hosts a fossil-footprint presentation on 25 October, with October programmes linked ...

Researchers report in Nature 1 today that they have an even better idea of what Denisovans looked like after analysing the physical features of remains that belong to a collection of 20 fossils found ...

A group of sea animals that first appeared more than 500 million years ago may share a wormlike ancestor with two other ...

Discover Florida's best places to hunt for fossils, shark teeth, seashells, and natural treasures, from hidden beaches to the ...