Over 50 Triassic coelacanth fossils of mawsoniid, found mislabeled in British museums, show these ancient fish thrived in ...

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Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...

Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks of scales from lepidopterans—a family of winged insects including ...

Scientists in America have unearthed fossils from a number of animals, many of them previously unknown, dating back to the dinosaur era. The newly-found fossils, including those from a pterosaur, ...

Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...

Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period. The groundbreaking discovery of the Benggwigwishingasuchus ...

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

(Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...