From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years.

It’s called Waimanu, or “water bird”. The Waimanu Inhabited Ancient New Zealand 60 Million Years Ago The fossilized remains of ancient penguins appear shortly after the mass extinction event ...

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

The Burgess Shale is renowned for preserving beautifully detailed remains of ancient creatures in the Cambrian Period, approximately 508 million years ago. Additional evidence of over 60 more ...

Shortly after their first appearance, approximately 132 million years ago, albeit in the southern portion of the supercontinent Laurasia, we see an explosive radiation of flowering plants not only ...

With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth” that swam in Earth’s oceans 506 million years ago.

Aquatic penguins evolved from flying birds about 60 million years ago, shortly after the age of dinosaurs, and have persisted through multiple, slow, natural cycles of ice ages and warmer ...

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 ...

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.