The study of fossils, known as paleontology is about examining old remains of plants, animals, and other life forms found in ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

The fossils are from two extinct species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis each of them small creatures less than 12 inches long (but about the same size as the ...

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...