The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Until recently, this lineage was thought to exist only in eastern Australia. But on the huge, biologically diverse island of New Guinea, there was no sign of its existence. Scientists presumed it had ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint.

new study reveals that large predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, ...

A team co-led by University of Minnesota researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleague Sebastian Apesteguía has ...

How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...