Years ago, Jason Bourque was digging through storage at the Florida Museum of Natural History when he came across a ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today - including ...

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

The authors described the bone as “the first unequivocal fossil of a tupinambine (tegu) in North America” with a “unique mosaic” of features. The road to discovering the new species ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

It’s an award-worthy fossil in many ways, being the oldest-known specimen of a thorny-headed worm and a new-to-science species, but perhaps most impressive of all is how it was found ...

A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...