An unusually well-preserved Australian fossil reveals details about the diet, behavior, and appearance of a ...

The analysis shocked experts as it indicated that the reptile moved on land when previous findings suggested that it was primarily an aquatic being. Findings regarding this fossil from the Alps ...

Animals living about 500 million years ago spent time on mudflats that were periodically exposed to the air. The finding suggests that some of the earliest animals were able to survive outside of ...

Brock’s iron shield fish adds to the rich prehistoric history of McGraths Flat, and contributes to its classification as a ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which ...

and in the fossil record, we can observe the gradual accumulation of these aquatic adaptations in the lineage that led to modern whales. As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out ...