Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to ...

A 166-million-year-old Middle Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, the size of a large dog and bipedal, has been discovered on the ...

"Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur with feathers, nor is it the first dinosaur with wings. However, we think it is the ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

A discovery by amateur palaeontologists in northern Victoria has helped change our understanding of reptile life on earth.

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

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