In the red mudstone hills of southwest China, scientists have uncovered a remarkable dinosaur that is changing how they ...

Scientists in China have discovered fossils of a new mammal-like reptile species in Gansu province – the first of its genus to be found in both South Africa and China. The finding suggests that Late ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in New South Wales has forced scientists to rethink the origins of a group of freshwater insects. The fossil, a 151-million-year-old non-biting midge, is the oldest ever ...

A team of researchers has identified a massive prehistoric shark that lived off the coast of what is now northern Australia, long before whales, great white sharks, or the giant megalodon appeared, ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Credit: Louise Reily / Australian Museum An 82-year-old man ...

Two small upper jaws pulled from Morocco’s phosphate mines reveal a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that lived about 66 million years ago. The find is formally described in a peer-reviewed ...