While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists accidentally discovered the fossil of a giant ancient ...

The Bennetts Stream restoration project began five years ago, as part of a wider biodiversity project focused on improving sites of ecological interest across the irrigation scheme’s 44,000-hectare ...

Pterosaurs evolved active flight over 230 million years ago. The discovery of Melkamter pateko in Argentina suggests ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

They also found that some areas were marshy in Alexander's time and therefore don't match the description of the battlefield, enabling the team to rule out these locations. Ancient records say ...

NAGOYA -- What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are actually the bones of a bear, researchers recently announced. The fossilized ...

A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

which has previously yielded unique fossils of an ancient cassowary, a crocodile and possibly a giant snake. Bullock Creek's Elseya mudburra predates megafauna found at another Miocene-period ...