“After being properly prepared, it became evident that (the new species was) part of a rare group of herbivorous/omnivorous ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place on the ...

More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

A 30-million-year-old skull from Fayum, Egypt, is thought to come from the apex predator of the times, which would have been ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...

These species, from mild grazers to leaf-eating monsters, are entirely plant-based in their diets. Here we discuss the top 10 herbivorous creatures, their adaptations, ecological significance, and the ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...