Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...

Southern Africa is widely recognized for its rich fossil record, preserving evidence of ancient life, including dinosaurs. However, around 182 million years ago, massive lava eruptions spread across ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

Finding an entire museum dedicated to prehistoric creatures in a charming Virginia town you’ve probably driven past a hundred ...

Michael Christopher Brown Unusually for a major tourist attraction, the phrase “death trap” features prominently in the ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

After months of carefully digging up the fossilised eggs, researchers say the site is one of the world’s most important of ...

Every week, people line up to receive a plate of food in an unlikely place: the humble home where Argentine soccer legend ...

Certain smaller sauropods could stand on their hind legs with surprising ease, giving them access to higher food and a defensive edge. Computer simulations show their bones handled stress better than ...

The huge creature was 37 metres long and 6 metres tall when it walked the earth ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

South Korea has a famous dinosaur of its own – not from a museum, but from television. Dooly, a mischievous green baby dinosaur with two little sprigs of hair, is essentially a national cartoon icon.