Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

A fossil crocodile that sat in a Spanish museum for over a century just gave up secrets no researcher had ever suspected were ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

Researchers have recently discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that overturns a long-held assumption about how the avian tail evolved, according to findings published online in the journal Science ...

Life reconstruction of the Jurassic bird Zhengheornis buyu from the Zhenghe Fauna in Fujian province. [Photo provided to ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

Recently discovered microfossils date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans. A scientist from the University of Leicester has ...

A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. Leaf ...