A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

"Animals, plants, seaweed, and foraminifera are all eukaryotes. We were interested in studying this foraminifera because it thrives in a very similar environment to Earth during the Precambrian, a ...

Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park is located in Middle Brook, Missouri, approximately 100 miles southwest of St. Louis. The park ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...