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

By Will Dunham July 23 (Reuters) - Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are ...

Fossil finds are exciting moments that sometimes introduce the world to an ancient mammal or dinosaur that existed millions ...

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

Spriggina floundersi was no bigger than a few centimeters, lived on ancient seafloors in what is now South Australia, and lacked anything you would call a hand. Yet fossils of the creature now point ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in modern animals that are right-handed.

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

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

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans. These tiny, filter-feeding colonial animals live in almost every ocean ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...