A scuba-diving entrepreneur found a six-inch megalodon tooth in the Gulf last week, a rare specimen indicating the ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

A newly identified dinosaur has stirred attention among paleontologists worldwide. It lived about 94 million years ago, ...

From deep-sea sponges to ancient tortoises, the longest-living animals can survive for centuries, even pausing aging.

A 165-million-year-old femur has been discovered in Morocco, the oldest cerapodan fossil ever found. It is a key find for ...

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

“The fossil evidence suggests dinosaurs had at least small parasites,” said Jarzembowski. “Thorny-headed worms can be found ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is one of the oldest known representatives of the ... closes an important gap in the fossil record, and provides new insights into the development and expansion of ...

SAO PAULO — Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, has died at 116, her religious congregation said last week. Canabarro died Wednesday at home ...

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant – a winged ... “I was looking for wasps among the fossils of the collection and was shocked when I recognized this ...

"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to be ...