Feb 19 (Reuters) - At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in a remote region ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...