Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

In Egypt's Fayum Desert, researchers have unearthed a new species of ancient carnivorous mammal named Bastetodon. This ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

These incredible animals have defied the odds ... has survived since over 200 million years ago and is considered a true survivor from the dinosaur's time. Freshwater and saltwater are habitats ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

Looking for Hominin Evidence Researchers didn't identify hominin remains at Grăunceanu, but instead found animal bones with cuts ... on bones dated to around 1.95 million years ago. They detected ...

A fossilized animal vomit from 66 million years ago was discovered at the World Heritage Site ' Steuns Klint ' on the island of Zealand in Denmark. Such discoveries are said to provide important ...

These fossils offer unique insights into the evolution of animals and the Eocene Epoch around 45 million years ago. At that time, the Geiseltal was a warm, tropical swamp. Ancient horses ...

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...