Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

Scientists uncover a 42-million-year-old four-legged whale fossil in Peru, reshaping theories about whale migration and ...

University of Florida paleontologists had the unique opportunity to send a couple of their small fossils to space at no extra ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

This prehistoric quadruped discovered on the coast of Peru was similar to a modern-day otter or beaver — except it was 13 ...