More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

A beautifully preserved skeleton found on the UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of the marine reptiles ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up as mostly pieces of ...

Paleontologists say that the extinction of the dinosaurs may have led to the proliferation of rivers and dense forests, ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park.

Adiel Klompmaker, curator of the paleontology collection for the UA museums, has named a prehistoric crab species in honor of Nick Saban.

A 28-centimetre fragment of fossilised jawbone—first unearthed on the Welsh coast in 1899—has now been formally recognised as part of a previously unknown, large-bodied theropod dinosaur. Researchers ...

The fossil record of plant–insect interactions offers an exceptional window into the deep-time co-evolutionary dynamics between terrestrial flora and their insect herbivores. Over hundreds of millions ...

Scientists in Argentina have discovered Joaquinraptor casali, a new dinosaur species from the mysterious megaraptoran group.