The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the ...

Researchers assert that the Triassic-Jurassic extinction was a sudden event. Around 201.6 million years ago, Earth experienced one of its five major mass extinctions, leading to the abrupt ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest giant tadpole fossil, dating back over 160 million years, in Argentina.

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

Scientists can learn a lot about its diet by studying its poop (see graphic). Pieces of bones found in fossilised dinosaur ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

Rare fossils uncovered in Colorado show an unexpected swamp-dwelling creature lived among the dinosaurs millions of years ago. A team of paleontologists uncovered the “new (or, more accurately, very ...

It’s named, fittingly, the Poozeum, and it opened earlier this year in Williams, Arizona, a small town about an hour south of ...

The Ultimate Predator, will open in November and feature one of the most scientifically accurate representations of the T.

Vice President Kamala Harris would not support an expansion of fossil fuel drilling despite her recent campaign boasts about domestic oil production under the Biden administration. "Just to be ...

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...