His 1828 discovery of eggshells and fossils of species like titanosaurus and rajasaurus near Bara Simla Hill was Asia’s first ...

Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles.

Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began ...

The evolution of early snakes has always been something of a mystery. But peering into the brain of an ancient fossil may ...

A rare 3D snake fossil from Brazil reveals specialized features for burrowing, offering new evidence of how diverse snakes ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have ...

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...

It represents the first known evidence of a cloaca in Synapsids, and the earliest known from the mammalian lineage.