Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

A fossil-hunting father-daughter team from Vancouver Island has been recognized in the naming of a new genus of giant ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

A fossil of a butterfly now believed extinct that was discovered in western Japan 37 years ago has been identified as that of a new species of the insect.

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.