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Science & Nature A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod...

Science & Nature Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have identified a new species of meiolaniform turtle from northern Patagonia, Argentina, that lived during the Maastrichtian age, just before...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have identified a new species of the axolotl genus Ambystoma from several fossilized specimens found deep in the rocky outcrops...

Science & Nature A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years ago, has been...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail revealed Megachelicerax cousteaui, the oldest known relative of spiders, pushing the origins of this group back by 20 million years...

Science & Nature Long-overlooked fossils in the Western Australian Museum collection have been identified as a new species of koala. The post New Species of...

Science & Nature Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur -- an extinct lineage of beaked, herbivorous reptiles...