A dog-size reptile slipped through fern-choked forests 237 million years ago in what is today Paraíso do Sul, Brazil. The animal had the body of ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

Scientists in Argentina have uncovered the world’s oldest tadpole fossil, dating back 161 million years to the Jurassic ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

the Gondwanax paraisensis fossil comes from the time when dinosaurs as well as mammals, crocodiles, turtles and frogs first arose. In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...