A 55-million-year-old predatory fish resurfaces after decades lost in notes and reveals ancient seas teeming with hunters.

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see the world using four camera-type eyes, reshaping our understanding of how ...

Along a three-kilometre stretch of Port Phillip Bay an abundance of prehistoric fossils can be found. Next month, more than 1000 will go on display.

University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno led several expeditions to Niger that culminated in the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, the first evidence of a new species of the Spinosaurus genus in ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

A 20-year program partners with Michigan DNR to prevent poaching of the threatened species, which can weigh up to 200 pounds and live to be 100 years old.

Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, Chongqing. This remarkable find, dating back to the early Silurian Period, was ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Each state in the United States has state symbols that come in the shape of animals, songs and fish, among many others. Most people can usually name their state animal off the top of their head, but ...