Feb 19 (Reuters) - At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of ...

Spinosaurus in the Sahara Desert in Niger, a discovery that adds to the debate over whether the prehistoric creatures were fully or semi-aquatic]]> ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in a remote region ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

A newly discovered fossil marine lizard withrazor-sharp teeth is offering scientists a rare glimpse into life at the very end ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...