It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age immediately prior to dinosaurs, ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of daisies have been ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Colors evolved for survival, with animals using them for warnings and mating, and plants attracting pollinators.

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

(Supplied: Bob Smith) Common opal can be ... Bob Foster didn't let the serious fossil find dampen his sense of humour.(Supplied: Greg Foster) Bones of a small plant-eating dinosaur that would ...

IN an article on a fossil plant from the Isle of Man, in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 555, the following sentence is attributed, apparently on the authority of Mr. Leo Lesquereux, to my report on the ...

While they didn’t uncover any dinos, they instead stumbled upon the oldest known fossil tadpole. “The paleontologists found hundreds of adult specimens of the basal ghost frog, the ancestor of ...