Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana supercontinent during the late Palaeozoic ice age: a massive, eight foot-long ...

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

It seemed like a promising area to search for ancient human ancestors. Johanson knew that if hominin fossils were found there, they could upend our understanding of how humans came to be.

What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient fossils was uncovered. There are millions of fossils that make up those excavated since ...

This task is virtually impossible with most types of fossils. Physical damage, like bite marks, can be used to study ancient scuffles between predator and prey, but paleontologists seldom find ...

Sure, the red-backed salamander is slimy. And, fine, maybe their eyes are beady and they look like baby snakes. But, even the most ardent amphibian-phobes can be converted. “I thought they were ...

With 58 species of salamanders — more than one tenth of all the world’s salamander species — Georgia is a global “hot spot” for the amphibians. For all of their abundance, however ...

Within the freshwater wetlands of Florida, a few species of salamanders known as sirens ... in slow-flowing wetlands of the Southeast like isolated wetlands, ditches, or ephemeral ponds, they ...