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

A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...

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

Curiously uniform dimples on the teeth of ancient hominins may give scientists a new way to trace their origins and ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Amateur fossil hunters discovered a trackway left by a creature that might have looked like the one in this illustration. The finding raises new questions about the evolution of the earliest reptiles.

A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been from a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile. A research team made up ...

A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ant to have ever been found by scientists, a new study has revealed.

The sandstone slab was found by two amateur palaeontologists in Australia and carries well-preserved footprints of long-toed feet with claw impressions at the tips ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

A Leggy Tyrannosaur: Scientists say that the fossil of a close relative of Tyrannosaur rex bolsters their case for a distinctive southern population of the fearsome dinosaurs. T. Rex Dethroned?: ...