The oldest ever discovered tumor on a human species dates from 1.7 million years ago. In the Swartkrans Cave archaeologists have found a toe bone in which they have discovered a quite aggressive type ...

Scientists have identified a prehistoric monkey lizard species, revealing unique crest features and early reptile evolution.

A previously unknown reptile species with a striking skin crest has been identified by Dutch paleontologist Stephan Spiekman ...

A new study reveals that ocean acidification, triggered by a massive carbon dioxide surge from volcanic activity during the ...

A dinosaur was stolen from a Temple Hobby Lobby, and police are asking the public for help identifying the suspects who drove ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...