Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of ...

A rock core clock reveals how life recovered after Earth's greatest mass extinction and what drove that process.

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according ...

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when ...

Whoever the trackmakers are, these footprints establish the origin of bird-like feet at least as early as the Late Triassic Period. The authors add: “ Trisauropodiscus tracks are known from numerous ...