In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other ...

Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas ...

An ancient fossil reveals giant echidnas once lived across Australia, including Victoria, expanding their known prehistoric ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

Around 110 million years ago, two small pterosaurs about the size of modern seagulls were flying over a lake or river, likely ...

Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal extinct giant echidnas ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

Scientists discovered a giant echidna fossil in Australia that shows these animals lived across a wider area during the Ice ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world’s oldest octopus ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

The skull of a baby dinosaur found near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is only the second of its kind ever found. Named “Lucy,” the ...