Geologists discovered a fossilised single vertebra of the giant sea lizard known as a mosasaur that lived during the late ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Crocs pursuing prey on land is difficult to imagine, isn't it? However, there used to be swift, dreadful crocodile cousins in ...

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is a 1,800-acre conservation facility in Glen Rose, Texas, that offers a safari experience while ...

Fossils of Tiktaalik roseae blended fins with hints of limbs and sported a flat head suited for peering above the waterline.

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.

Using 3D modeling, researchers at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument are learning about the daily lives of ancient ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

For decades, scientists could not agree on whether to classify the Dickinsonia as an animal or not — until this new study ...