Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly-discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

Amber deposits in Japan show unique deformations that suggest trees were swept out to sea during a tsunami about 115 million ...

Paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. The results are announced in ...

Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our Ultimate Legacy, about the things we’re leaving behind, the ways those items will ...

Fossils of the T. rex, tyrant lizard and queen of the dinosaurs, are found exclusively in North America. Strangely, they have ...

According to Dr. Wenhao Wu, one of the paleontologists involved in the study, the Songliao Basin was chosen for study due to the possibility of numerous dinosaur fossils likely still lying ...

For years, paleontologists had puzzled over the absence of a large predator in the fossil record from that era. Zelenitsky emphasized the significance of finally identifying Ulughbegasaurus ...