Paleontologists have identified a new species, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, based on a fossilized jaw found in Late Triassic deposits. This small reptile, measuring no more than 30 centimeters in ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists ... the flowers that these animals pollinate. "This new evidence ...

A quarry in South East England has yielded a fascinating paleontological discovery: long tracks with a total of 200 footprints left by enormous dinosaurs that roamed the earth during the Middle ...

A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ago has been described as a new species. Evidence of the species, Threordatoth chasmatos, was ...

Then, about 540 million years ago, something else changed ... dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the ...

A recent study focused on the intact suit of armour of aetosaurs sheds light on these ancient creatures ... They went extinct 200 million years ago. Ancient Armour Mosaic The bony plates of ...

But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow ...

A scientist has found that 53 sea creatures previously thought to ... communicative sound to several different species 200 million years ago. Patrick Viana It turns out that caecilians - a group ...