Researchers Crack Centuries-Old ‘Skeleton’ Mystery With Help of 550-Million-Yr-Old Fossils, Reveal What Ancient Animals ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, but they remain the only major volant group to face ...

Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light, hollow bones rapidly decompose. So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx ...

An international research team used powerful X-ray beams to peer inside its bones, showing they were almost hollow ... of fascination since the first fossils were found in the 1860s.

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--A fossil believed to be the bones of the extinct marine mammal Paleoparadoxia was found in the Tokigawa river here on June 10. The Mizunami Fossil Museum, the city’s ...

He called on fellow fossil hunters to help him recover the bones - thought to be between 650,000 and 800,000 years old - and said future storms could uncover more of the skeleton. "No one has ...

Large coprolite with fish remains: A coprolite fragment densely packed with fish bones, likely produced by the phytosaur Paleorhinus. Fossil faeces of the bone-crushing archosaur Smok, ...