About 309 million years ago, before dinosaurs appeared, a squat amphibian-like animal lived in the swamps and river channels ...

For millions of years, an ancient coral reef has been buried underneath the Australian outback. New fossil discoveries could ...

Two rare 105-million-year-old bird fossils reveal Tenuicruris piscanexum, only the second named Cretaceous bird from Australia.

Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, a newly identified plant-eating relative of mammals from Tanzania, may change the age assigned ...

A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and ...

The post How New Fossil Discoveries Just Rewrote the History of Land Life appeared first on A-Z Animals. We've all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a ...

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

A fossilized Charnia has been found that kept its 3D shape after being engulfed in sediment on the seafloor just before the ...

Iguanodontians are a diverse group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous and had a worldwide distribution. Intercontinental dispersal events between Asia, ...