Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. More than 180 million years ago, ichthyosaurs ruled the early ...

A three-quarter inch fossil discovered in Utah may hold the key to the origin of Earth’s vertebrates, a pair of scientists ...

A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow before being stumbled upon by a hiker in the Italian Alps. The discovery, made ...

Life is the rarest thing in the universe. When inorganic molecules come together in the right proportions and circumstances, ...

Research has shown that pelagic sharks tend to have longer, narrower fins compared to their benthic relatives, which typically possess shorter, rounded fins. A key to understanding how sharks navigate ...

The fossils date back to the Cambrian Explosion around half a billion years ago when animal life was evolving in new ways. Within the walls of the Grand Canyon, researchers have discovered thousands ...

Life reconstruction of the large-sized Jurassic ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus. “The soft tissue preservation in this fossil is just one of these amazing discoveries that you stumble across once in a ...