Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives ...

An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

A mass extinction is when big percentage of all species die off. The best-known mass extinction is probably the one that ...

Previously, this had only been inferred from scattered fossil evidence. (Hominins is a term used to refer to humans and their extinct relatives ... or even with other animals.

Fossils of mammals and reptiles have also been unearthed this year, including extinct animals such as ancient pandas and stegodon, which are related to modern elephants. According to the ...

In Scotchtown, about 70 miles northwest of New York City, one couple came upon an unusual and thrilling paleontological find ...

O'Connor adds: "This way, we were able to create a detailed 'temperature timeline' for the years leading up to the dinosaur extinction, which we can compare to the fossil record to understand the ...

At the time, they believed the extinct species could be related to ginseng. A more recent analysis, however, has challenged that hypothesis. Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida ...

Feces fossils are called coprolites ... and the nature of the digestive systems of living relatives of these extinct animals. Take, for example, the 20-foot-long (6-meter) four-legged meat ...