A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, ...

While sharks may have emerged before trees, it’s the latter that holds the title of the longest-living organisms. The oldest-known, still-living, individual tree is a 4,857-year-old Californian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the foreground, two Bakiribu waridza feed in a lake environment while, in the background, Irritator pursues other specimens.

A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify prehistoric barf that’s nearly 290 million years old — and could be ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...

Thrinaxodon, asmall carnivorous predator and cynodont from the Early Triassic period, has long intrigued paleontologists due to its anatomical similarities to modern mammals.Its mix of reptilian and ...

Experts have reconstructed the skull of a prehistoric predator that long puzzled scientists, and revealed a fearsome yet oddly familiar sight. Roughly 330 million years ago, Crassigyrinus scoticus ...

A Jan Juc father has accomplished his life “mission” of finding a prehistoric shark tooth, after stumbling upon a 25-million-year-old fossil on his way in from the surf.