Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

Cwm Nash is also quieter than other Welsh beaches. There's no car park at the beach, and it's only accessible by parking in a ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several ...

Cwm Nash is also quieter than other Welsh beaches. There's no car park at the beach, and it's only accessible by parking in a ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of ancient fish with hooked front fangs that made them a fearsome and effective ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Amniotes are thought to have diverged from amphibians at the dawn of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Mammals would diverge from reptiles and birds only 30 million years later.

Amniotes are thought to have diverged from amphibians at the dawn of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Mammals would diverge from reptiles and birds only 30 million years later.

If amniotes had already evolved by the earliest Carboniferous, as our fossil shows, the last common ancestor of amniotes and amphibians has to lie much further back in time, in the Devonian period.

The new Australian fossils come from Gondwana, a gigantic southern continent that also contained Africa, South America, Antarctica and India. In all of this vast landmass, which stretched from the ...