A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

Study co-author Biplob Pramanik shows the difference between a concrete block coated ... Laura is a science news writer, ...

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

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.

In northern Tajikistan, in the Sughd region, scientists have discovered a dinosaur bone dated 85 million years ago. During ...

But we didn’t know how much it would become an icon in the study of human origins. CNN: How long did it take to excavate the ...

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

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

A groundbreaking genetic study has challenged long-held beliefs about Christopher Columbus's origins, suggesting the renowned ...

says the study. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis and Tanystropheus sp. didn’t coexist in the eastern Tethys, based on where their ...