They say the new fossil, which doesn’t have a ... “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine teeth." He said the teeth suggest that this gorgonopsian ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

Scientists predict that sponges—among the most basic animals—arose a few hundred million years before the occurrence of the oldest confirmed fossil specimens, which date to about 500 million years ago ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird ... based on most of our modeling, and this animal, we recovered it in a marine rock unit so we ...

The fossil, from the species Megachirella wachtleri, was first found in 2003 in Italy's Dolomites ... one of the most important lizard fossils ever studied. After dating the fossil, researchers ...

Scientists in Antarctica have discovered what may be the oldest modern bird ever found. The 69 million-year-old fossil could finally put a longstanding debate about the origin of modern birds to rest.

It is also the oldest monstersauria found so far. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, said on Nov. 25 that the jawbone fossil is the first from ...

Despite decades of digging and discovery, paleontologists still have not found fossil ... earliest known fossils and those from the dinosaurs that lived much later suggest that animals had already ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest known modern bird.

A team of researchers may have determined where fossils older than any we’ve ever found may be ... Museum posited that while the oldest fossils that have been found to date are 230 million ...

The international team, including palaeontologists from The University of Manchester, found a new set of trace fossils left by some of the first ever organisms capable of active movement ... fossils ...