A cave near Waitomo has yielded fossils from ancient birds and frogs, including a possible flying relative of the kākāpō. The ...
An unassuming fragment of fossil bone collected four decades ago has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur bone ever ...
The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...
Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...
Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...
New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...
Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.
NEW YORK — Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, ...
A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...
Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British ...