Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals, according to a study published in Nature today. The ...

After more than two decades spent in a private collection, one of the most detailed and complete fossil sets arrived at the Chicago’s Field Museum in 2022. But before it made its public debut ...

Archaeopteryx specimens have, “maybe more than any other fossil, changed the way that we see the world,” said Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Over 164 ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

The study is based on fossils unearthed from Murgon on the traditional lands of the Waka Waka people of south-eastern Queensland. The new species, Litoria tylerantiqua, is named in honor of the ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

Fossil specimen ISIR 282 was recovered from the Upper Maleri Formation in the Pranhita-Godavari Basin of south-central India. Dating to the early Norian stage of the Late Triassic, the formation ...

In 2021, a pair of amateur fossil enthusiasts exploring the banks of the Broken river, near Mansfield, Victoria, found a slab of sandstone, around 40 centimetres across, with three sets of tracks ...

The unique features of Mosura fentoni astounded paleontologists. Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in ...

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals, according to a study published in Nature today 1. The ...

Scientists recently described the insect as a new genus and species, using this fossil and one other that was nearly as well preserved, from the same site. Even though the specimens are female ...