The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists’ understanding of this still-mysterious group of prehistoric reptiles Alexa Robles ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

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It was the 1920s, and scientists were searching far and wide for fossils of human ancestors. The question of where humans evolved was open, and while Charles Darwin had claimed it might be Africa ...

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Fossils tell us the world over about life on Earth before humans existed - they can help us understand what the climate was like, what creatures lived on the planet, and what caused significant ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs.

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...

Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse ...