'Frog from hell' fossil unearthed
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A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.
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An astonishing new fossil uncovered in a remote region of China has overturned accepted views of the relationship between dinosaurs and early mammals.
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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the find.
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Fossil remains of the oldest and smallest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, the world&#39;s favorite ferocious dinosaur, have been discovered in China with evidence that its body was cloaked in downy &quot;protofeathers.
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Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago.
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A fossil unearthed in China gives scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like "in the flesh".
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Today researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ancient reptile. The 230-million-year-old remains of the long-necked, aquatic predator were found in China.
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A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
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A rare, 0.4-inch (1-centimeter) tree frog that could be 25 million years old has been found in a chunk of amber dug up by a Mexican miner, a scientist announced.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
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A prehistoric neck bone found 12 years ago by amateur fossil hunters in Britain belongs to the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK and possibly Europe, a report published in the Cretaceous Research Journal said today.
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An almost complete human skull fossil  that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China,  state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest  discovery since Peking Man.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.