Brazil finds fossil of crocodile 'missing link'
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Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the "missing link" between prehistoric and present-day crocodiles.
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The mystery of whether dinosaurs were indifferent parents or cared for their young may have been solved by a discovery in China. More than 100 million years ago an adult dinosaur was buried
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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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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.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa.
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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 unique, nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a prehistoric crocodile found in Brazil backs up theories that there were land links between South America and Madagascar about 70 million years ago.
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A newly discovered fossil could be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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A Mexican man has discovered dozens  of dinosaur footprints dating back up to 110 million years  along the banks of a dried river, scientists said on Tuesday.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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Norwegian scientists report finding a  treasure trove  of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that once roamed the Arctic sea about 150 million years ago.Comment
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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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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said yesterday.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Scientists have foundwell-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closestrelatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists saidon Thursday.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.