At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Major oil companies, including Shell and precursors to energy giants Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP, were alerted about the ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Analyses revealed a unique pattern in which back teeth matured more slowly than front teeth in the specimen's first five years. This pattern, combined with an observed reliance on adult caregivers, ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known tadpole. And it's a doozy, stretching almost 16 centimeters (or 6 inches ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

Navaornis is likened to a sort of Rosetta Stone for decyphering the evolution of bird brains.