The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

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 ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost certainly descended from dinosaurs. Until now, scientists largely attributed ...

An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient ...

The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ancient record holder by about 20 million years. Imprinted in a slab of sandstone are parts of the tadpole’s skull and backbone ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

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.

THEY SAY THEY FOUND THREE PEOPLE ... Ginkgo biloba is often called a living fossil because the ginkgo has existed for hundreds of millions of years. The Clemson Cooperative Extension Home and ...