Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish
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Australian scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest preserved vertebrate tissue - two morsel-size pieces of muscle from an ancient fossil fish.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Fossilized foot marks left by a big  meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years  ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were  good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.
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This conclusion comes from US and Chinese scientists who today announce the discovery of a 130m-year-old forerunner of the lumbering Cretaceous predator.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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WASHINGTON: Using computer programs, scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Scientists in China have found a 120 million-year-old fossil of a baby bird which is believed to have died just before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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Washington - The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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WASHINGTON -- The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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A group of paleontologists have discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, or large mammoth-like mammal, that lived some three million years ago, the head of the team told AFP Monday.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a  "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic  graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.