Named Bakiribu waridza, the newly-identified species is the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics. Bakiribu waridza ...

A fossil-rich site on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen has revealed an extraordinary ecosystem that thrived 249 million years ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

A new Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered, Galgadraco zephyrius, revealing surprising links with Romania.

So, Bakiribu refused to go down without a fight, and its efforts have been rewarded. It now represents the first record of a ...

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...

For years, paleontologists debated the timeline for recovery following the devastating end-Permian mass extinction (the ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back ...

Fossil hunters in Kenya have uncovered footprints on an ancient shore that are teaching us something entirely new about how ancient hominins lived.

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells.