A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.

A tiny gecko trapped in Myanmar amber for almost 99 million years has given scientists a rare look at one of the oldest known ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region was populated by lush forests.

A remarkably preserved skull bone from a 320-million-year-old coelacanth, one of Earth's rarest prehistoric fish, has been ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going through a metamorphosis akin to that of today's frogs. But new research in the ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

Bonobos and chimpanzees use friendly physical contact to manage social stress before meals. New research shows both species ...

A rare dinosaur skeleton finally made its way home after being illegally smuggled out of Mongolia two decades ago. After ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

Morocco has recovered nine rare fossilized reptile teeth dating back between 66 and 72 million years after French authorities ...

The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is believed to have lived around 150 million years ago.