Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was ...

Dinosaur fossil find An international team from National Museums Scotland revealed the fossil of a Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a 5-meter-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period. An ...

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What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of emitting ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was long, with an almost serpentine neck, the skeleton of what seemed to be a ...