Around 121 million years ago, somewhere in modern northeastern China, an early bird took to the skies. If you drew its ...

More than 25 years after it was first discovered, a new species and genus of dinosaur have been named from the fossil ...

A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from UC Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

Bird flight originated on a single evolutionary ladder leading from dinosaurs to birds. New fossils are shaking up this ...

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the ...

A heavily armoured amphibian may have lived in the sea around 237 million years ago, offering new clues about how early vertebrates adapted to saltwater, according to a report by Nature. Researchers ...

Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Mongolia half a century ago belong to a newly identified species that evolved into the massive flesh-eating tyrannosaurs that dominated the planet for millions of years, ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

Las Vegas is known for nightlife, but a nearby desert attraction offers a different daytime outing, with Ice Age history, ...