Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

The size of this fossil is very small compared to the common sea cow. Researchers used new technology to re-measure this ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

Caribbean reef food webs have compressed by up to 70% over the past 7,000 years as fish diets converge and ecosystems become ...

While there are no native lion or tiger populations in Japan today, this was not always the case. Fossils indicate that at ...

Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian ...

Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of years ago, as analysis of fossil specimens that were beli ...