Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

Amber deposits in Japan show unique deformations that suggest trees were swept out to sea during a tsunami about 115 million ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

Fossils of the T. rex, tyrant lizard and queen of the dinosaurs, are found exclusively in North America. Strangely, they have ...

Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our Ultimate Legacy, about the things we’re leaving behind, the ways those items will ...

While paleontologists have unearthed four-toed ankylosaur footprints throughout North America, three-toed ones have remained elusive—until now. An international team of researchers has ...

For years, paleontologists had puzzled over the absence of a large predator in the fossil record from that era. Zelenitsky emphasized the significance of finally identifying Ulughbegasaurus ...

Mexidracon longimanus, an ornithomimid with extra-long arms. The new find significantly rewrites the diversity of dinosaurs.

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch.