A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Described from Early Pliocene deposits dated to about five million years ago, Dynamognathus is believed to be either an ancient cousin or even a possible ancestor of today’s dusky salamanders. It also ...

New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

Article Title A new plethodontid salamander from the Early Pliocene of northeastern Tennessee, USA, and its bearing on desmognathan evolution.

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...