An ichthyosaur fossil discovered near Fernie, B.C., which has been sitting in an Ottawa museum for more than a century, was recently identified as a new species by a team of scientists. The Fernatator ...

Despite how Ross’ paleontology career is treated by his companions in Friends, there’s something special about finding the remains of creatures that lived millions if not billions of years before us.

Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Arizona has revealed the oldest known pterosaur species ever found in North America. The new species, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, lived around 209 million years ago, a ...

"Ardi" fossils from Ethiopia are 4.4 million years old. Oct. 1, 2009 — -- Scientists today told the world what they know about Ardipithecus ramidus-- "Ardi" for short -- the oldest pre-human ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...

Vera Korasidis received funding from the University of Melbourne Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Fellowship Award. Scott Wing's fieldwork was supported by the Roland W. Brown fund of the Department of ...

The end-Cretaceous was the age of the dinosaurs, an era populated by iconic prehistoric creatures like Ankylosaurus, Gallimimus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus rex. Our favorite dinosaurs might be the ...

Daniel Thomas has received funding from Massey University. Alan Tennyson and Felix Georg Marx do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...