Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

Despite being creatures that lived and died long before us, dinosaurs hold a special place in our imaginations. But their huge popularity also often raises an intriguing question: How were dinosaur ...

The fossil discovered is that of an extinct dolphin-like reptile estimated to have lived more than 100 million years ago in ...

Scientists Discover a Football-Shaped Animal Species in a 500-Million-Year-Old Shale, Stunned by Its Massive Size ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race.

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

The quest to discover Earth’s first animal is a journey through deep time. It leads us to ancient seas where life began its complex dance. The debate centers on two candidates: sponges and comb ...

Remarkably, the fossil seems to date to around 280-270 million ... the oldest known member of a group of extinct animals known as the gorgonopsians. These are prehistoric mammal relatives that ...