For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way these fossils were preserved is far from what scientists ...

Scientists in Australia have uncovered rare fossils of Obdurodon insignis, a 25‑million‑year‑old platypus species that retained large, functional teeth and a strong bite. The finds include a molar, a ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

The burnt bone fragments were one of three Homo sapien fossils discovered in the sediment of the Faro Daba beds in the ...

Coastal tracks in South Africa show dinosaurs lived there millions of years longer than expected, filling gaps left by scarce ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...