Learn how the Gorgonopsian fossil was found in Mallorca, dating back 270 million years, and was discovered far from other ...

The oldest known ancestor of mammals lived at least 270 million years ago in what is now Mallorca. About one meter long, it ...

The first true mammals evolved roughly 200 million years ago, during the early days of the dinosaurs. But mammals are the ...

A 205-million-year-old fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, was confirmed as the oldest modern lizard, shifting Squamata ...

Recently, a new species, named Melkamter pateko, has been unearthed in the Chubut province of Argentina. Interestingly, this ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal ...

Archaeologists have discovered the fossil of the oldest saber-toothed animal dating back to the time before dinosaurs walked ...

The earliest known turtles date from 220 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive ...