La Brea Tar Pits scientists have identified a previously unknown juniper species as Juniperus scopulorum, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Juniper. The successful identification, along with the ...

Scientists have uncovered what they believe to be the oldest saber-toothed animal on record — a furless, husky-sized predator ...

An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de ...

Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens, the species ...

The test, the tetraplex digital PCR assay, is unique because it can identify four different species in one shot: Burmese pythons, northern African pythons, boa constrictors and rainbow boas.

The species dates back 35 million years. The post World’s oldest lizard fossil identified appeared first on Talker.

A story perpetuated in some social media circles and fringe websites claims that 600 million-year-old fossils belonging to tiny humanoids have been found in Antarctica. This is an internet hoax ...

Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree — called Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei — lived about the same time in the ...

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was discovered in a Peruvian desert. The fossil of the gharial – or fish-eating – ...