A ground-breaking discovery in Victoria has changes how scientists think life may have developed on Earth. A build and a winemaker stumbled across a fossilised rock near Mansfield, and scientists ...

New research uncovers how two ancient hominids used their hands in unique ways for climbing, tool use, and movement.

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 between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.

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 ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the ...

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

From petrified dinosaur fossils to ancient pictographs scrawled across the rocks, Dinosaur National Monument isn't quite like other US parks.

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...