A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Dinosaur footprints found in the Amazon rainforest offer rare evidence of Jurassic-era species once roaming this tropical ...

A new Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered, Galgadraco zephyrius, revealing surprising links with ...

Natural History Museum and University of Cambridge researchers have discovered a new species of ancient symbiotic fungus in a ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back ...

When you look at a fossil on display, you may envision the world 66 million years ago. You might feel the earth shake beneath ...

A 151-million-year-old midge fossil from the Jurassic era revealed that freshwater insects might have first evolved in the ...