A tiny fossil discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has revealed a new species of early mammal that lived around 90 million years ago. The find is already refining what scientists know about the ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Scientists discovered a 13-foot python in Taiwan from a single fossil vertebra, revealing a lost apex predator.

The fossilized skull of a pliosaur. Credit: Paleontological Research Center at Villa de Leyva Fossils of an extinct species of marine turtle (Desmarochelys padilla) from the Early Cretaceous in ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Introduction -- Purpose -- Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy -- Types of preservation and methods of study.

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

There are plenty of beaches and bays along the Yorkshire coast where you can find fossils with some that date back 200 million years - we have compiled a list below.