Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

The cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction and extreme global warming prompted the emergence of modern marine ecosystems at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs (or Mesozoic era), some 252 million ...

A "dominant" crocodile-like predator with a big lump on its head preyed on man's ancestors three million years, ago, according to new research. Early humans - embodied by the iconic hominin Lucy - ...

For decades, dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex, have captured the imaginations of the public and paleontologists alike. In many instances, pop culture has depicted the T. rex as the giant ...

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

Rob Tiffin goes out into the field when others call it quits—cold, dark, and rainy winter nights with soggy shoes and a lone beam emitting from his flashlight. He slowly wades through ponds and ...

During the Ice Age a massive hyena known as Pachycrocuta roamed across parts of Europe Asia and Africa Its unusually powerful jaws have led some researchers to describe it as a "bone crushing ...

NIAMEY, Niger — At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows the dinosaur Spinosaurus mirabilis standing at water's edge over a carcass of the coelacanth Mawsonia some ...