To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

But the new fossil is dated to between 270 and 280 ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine teeth." ...

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ... ruled as apex predators. These animals, neither fully mammals nor fully reptiles, exhibited a unique anatomy. Their legs, positioned beneath their bodies ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of ... shelled animal distantly related to brachiopods and an unknown ...

They may not be the oldest animals on Earth ... Its evolutionary history positions it as a “living fossil,” since it is the only surviving member of the entire lizard family Lanthanotidae ...

The fossils were found in Mallorca ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears,” says Angielczyk. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine ...

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

An "exceptional" 530-million-year-old fossil contains what could be the oldest eye ever discovered ... form of the eye seen in many of today's animals, including crabs, bees and dragonflies.

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and ...