A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, ...

Skull scans reveal burrowing adaptations in Tametara mirim, a Cretaceous snake whose anatomy differs sharply from another ...

The research, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests animals may have originated deep in the Neoproterozoic Era.

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was ...

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of ...

It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Emily Mitchell at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. Her research suggests clone-based reproduction kept early animals ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

Scientists thought Lizzie was an early reptile for more than 30 years. But advanced X-ray scans of the 345-million-year-old ...

A small fossil from the windswept Gobi Desert is forcing scientists to rethink a long chapter in the story of mammal evolution. For decades, researchers believed a group of ancient mammals called ...