Fossils
Fossils can give us a general picture of an animal, but finding out what exact colors these animals were is a far more difficult task. Now, for the first time ever, scientists have successfully identified the colors of ancient marine reptiles.
If there's one thing Saudi Arabia isn't known for, it's dinosaurs. While it doesn't change that image, scientists have now unearthed the first record of dinosaurs in the Arabian Peninsula.
Microbes fossils over 3.5 billion years old have been discovered among the rocks in Australia.
The book on the evolution of birds and flight just got a couple new pages as fossilized footprints in Australia turn out to be the oldest known bird tracks on the continent down under.
It might 520 million years old, but a recent fossil discovery holds the key to a very important step in the evolutionary history of the modern day nervous system. The fossilized remains of a three-centimeter-long distant ancestor of chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and scorpions, marks the world's oldest complete nervous system ever found.
A new study of 160-million year old fossilized remains found in China was published in Science, revealing new details on mammals and their relationship to Earth's history.
With a face that won't be turning heads in any kind of good way, Bunostegos was a large, ugly reptile that lumbered around 250 million years ago. While it won't be picking up any beauty awards anytime soon, a newly-discovered fossil of the reptile from northern Niger in Africa is now teaching scientists about the ancient supercontinent of Pangea.
While the modern day debate about human's access to grass remains a hot button political issue, our ancient hominid ancestors showed no hesitation including the vegetation as a staple of their diet and diverging from their ape-like heritage 3.5 million years ago.
A team of scientists led by Yale University Professor Tyler Lyson claim to have filled in a 55-million year hole in the fossil record with their recent examination of Eunotosaurus, the first species to form the protective shell of modern turtles.
If you ever manage to build a time machine, you might not want to visit ancient Earth. According to a new study, millions of years ago, the planet may have smelled like rotten eggs.
Google Doogle and world celebrated the life and legacy of Mary Leaky on what would have been her 100th birthday on February 6. Leaky was a leading paleoanthropologist from Great Britain renowned for her groundbreaking discoveries in Africa that transformed the study of human evolution.
Researchers have discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-age reptile, in Romania, LiveScience.com reported. The beast lived 68 million years ago and had a wingspan of almost 10 feet.
