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 ...

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

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

How life started on our own planet may not seem as interesting as finding evidence of life on Mars or the icy moons Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes on Earth remains as ...

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

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 ...

Discover some of the sensational specimens found by Mary Anning that are now part of the collections we look after.

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

Read a National Geographic magazine article about pterosaurs, the largest animals that ever flew, and get information, facts, ...

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