The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

The tegu, long thought to be an invasive species, turns out to have arrived in North America about 16 million years earlier ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

A microscope image shows the surface of a Kapur Paya fossil leaf. Tiny pores called stomata and the outer skin cells of the ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

Image of the original fossil cycad specimen, now held in NMNH’s collection, from the United States Geological Survey’s 19th Annual 1899 Report. USGS 19th Annual Report, 1899, pg. 851.

To address these uncertainties, Demers-Potvin and co-author Professor Hans Larsson used drones to capture around a thousand high-resolution images of a key fossil site in the park. These images ...