Sets of prehistoric three-toed footprints pressed into stone have led paleontologists to discover a new dinosaur in the ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well as an unusual ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China, hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils.

Named Vasuki indicus, this ancient snake is believed to have lived around 47 million years ago and could have grown as long ...

A temporary exhibit on Ice Age mammals will be one of the attractions during the 8th Annual Archaeology Day at the Ross County Heritage Center.

According to members of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, a local paleontologist confirmed the fossil was that of an ...

Twelve million years ago, a massive herd of rhinos gathered at a watering hole in what is now northeastern Nebraska. But when ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...