The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

The limestone, originating from the Crato Formation, a fossil site in Ceará state in northeastern ... predatory strategies significantly different from their modern counterparts,” Lepeco ...

Credit: Dave Lovelace, CC-BY 4.0 Researchers have studied an exceptional fossil site at Nobby Knob in Wyoming ... to several meters long (from inches to several yards) and occupied various habitats ...

This geological deposit and UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Germany ... a wide distribution and contains many different ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

Represented by fossilized pelvic bones from the Murgon fossil site in Queensland, Australia ... studies are important for understanding the evolutionary relationships of different groups of animals, ...

Credit: Joe Moysiuk Fossil specimen of Mosura fentoni, ROMIP 66108 from the Raymond Quarry site, photographed under different lighting conditions. The overall shape of the body is best shown in ...

"The presence of a large predator is really different than we imagined ... biodiversity because most of the fossils are relatively young. While these sites provide valuable insight into recent ...