Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

An extinct relative of the howler monkey may have been the first leaf-eating primate in South and Central America ...

The femur bone, found on the beach at Bay Head in January, was taken to the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum for identification.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

The two marsupials were found living in the remote rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea.

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

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

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...