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

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 ...

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 ...

Nature never fails to surprise us and sometimes it throws some unimaginable findings that are beyond human calculation. In a ...

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

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

When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

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

A remarkable chapter in natural history has just rewritten the auction record books. After an intense bidding battle ...