NEW YORK - Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

In a shallow, forgotten creek, this fisherman spots movement that looks straight out of the dinosaur age — a gar fish. With careful netting and a lot of patience, he manages to catch the ancient ...

KASHAN, 7 October (BelTA - IRNA) - Tadpole shrimps, among the planet’s oldest surviving species and regarded as living fossils, have been sighted in the city of Ardestan, Isfahan Province in central ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Experts will tell you that the Sunshine State has been underwater multiple times throughout its geologic history. One person who knows this firsthand is Patrick Chasteen, who takes guests to area ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...