Dr. Jim Braswell, President of the Alabama Paleontological Society, provided a seminar on the world-renowned Walker County ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered the oldest chemically verified amber ever found, dating to 385 million years ago.

Fossils almost never preserve brains, which is why a tiny fish from roughly 300 million years ago is drawing so much ...

Kallie Moore, who has worked at the University of Montana for nearly 20 years, is hosting a new PBS series focused on life ...

Fossil fragments confirm Praearcturus gigas as the largest scorpion ever discovered, perhaps one metre in length. Specimens ...

Previous fossils show fish brains rattling around inside much bigger skulls, but the brain of Trawdenia planti fits snugly ...

Animals like dinosaurs might come to mind when it comes to ancient species, but scientists found that this surprising species ...

A 16-centimetre pincer fossil recovered in the United Kingdom has settled a question that sat unresolved for more than a hundred years: it belongs to Praearcturus gigas, now confirmed as the largest ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University of Chicago.

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like modern frogs or salamanders ...

We integrated multiple lines of evidence, including fossil paleogeography, taphonomic-control analyses, global biogeographic regionalization, directional dispersal asymmetry, time-calibrated molecular ...

Giant scorpions the size of a baseball bat with pincers the size of a pencil once stalked what is now England and Wales.