Fossils

Science & Nature Paleontologists have described a new and older species of Palaeospondylus from the Early Devonian of Australia. The post 400-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Enigmatic...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have described a new species of the bat genus Icaronycteris based on two skeletons discovered in the American Fossil Quarry...

Science & Nature Paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new species of ancient beaver from the fossilized remains found...

Science & Nature Paleontologists at the Indian Institute of Technology have described a surprising new genus and species of crocodile-like reptile from fossils found...

Science & Nature The newly-identified species of tristichopterid fish grew up to 3 m (10 feet) long and belongs to the extinct genus Hyneria. The...

One of the two new species, Kumimanu fordycei, weighed up to 160 kg and may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived. The...

The principal animal lineages diverged in the Cambrian period, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 million...

Funcusvermis gilmorei lived in the tropical forests of what is now Arizona, the United States, during the Triassic period, approximately 220 million years ago. The...