Researchers have uncovered a major fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories that could reshape scientific understanding of when sexual reproduction first appeared on Earth.
The fossils date to the Ediacaran Period, more than 500 million years ago, when some of...
Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan. It was home to Laophis crotaloides, a prehistoric viper that remains the heaviest venomous snake ever discovered.
When we think...
Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago offer new evidence that the species could both walk upright and grasp objects with force and precision, traits that suggest it...
A recent analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in the village of Nikiti in northern Greece supports the controversial theory that apes, the ancestors of humans, evolved in Southeastern Europe instead of Africa.
The 8 or 9-million-year-old fossils had...
Excavations for rainwater drainage pipes have recently brought to light fourteen more petrified trees in the Petrified Forest on the island of Lesvos.
"The trunks were in a very good state of preservation—they are impressive logs laid on successive strata,...
Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed, a creature thought to be up to 15 meters in length - longer than a T-rex.
Scientists have...
Scientists have discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil of an organism known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form classification, as it is not a plant, an animal, or a fungus. Instead, the organism's taxonomic placement is...
The bone fragments of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors at 3.18 million years old, will be on display in Europe for the first time this year. They will be exhibited in Prague later this year. This exhibition...
A new study sheds unprecedented light on a fossil discovered in 2010 by paleontologist James Crampton, providing new insights into a partial ichthyosaur skeleton. The fossil is an extinct dolphin-like reptile that may have lived during the Late Cretaceous...
A New York homeowner unearthed a mastodon jaw that was peeking from beneath the soil in the backyard of their home. This is the first time a find like this has occurred in 11 years.
The researchers who were alerted...
