Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

A prehistoric digestive time capsule has been unearthed in Australia: plant fossils found inside a sauropod dinosaur offer ...

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths, hidden inside a 236-million-year ...

The findings suggest primitive eukaryotes were widespread between about 1.6 billion and 800 million years ago, comprising what the scientists have called a “lost world” of early complex life.

Now, examinations of fire-baked tools from the site suggest that these ancient people lived more than 300,000 years ago, making them twice as old as previously thought. The residents of the ...

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.