Experts think they may have uncovered what the first ever animal on Earth looked like after ancient chemical signals were found. For as long as scientists have understood evolution, the debate over ...

The study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), sheds new light on one of science’s most enduring questions: what did the first animals on Earth truly look ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence ...

For the first time, archaeologists have digitally and physically reconstructed fishing nets from more than 6,000 years ago, ...

NEW YORK -- Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian ...

Breugnathair elgolensis is the first of a new family of squamates called Parviraptoridae, described as “an enigmatic group with potential importance for snake origins, that was previously known from ...

The fossil was identified as a “tridimensional partial rostrum” fragment, or the part of an upper jaw close to the tip, or end, of a prehistoric animal, according to a study published Sept. 23 in the ...

Several scientists hit the proverbial jackpot recently when they discovered a massive trove of prehistoric reptilian feces in Argentina recently. Dr. Lucas Fiorelli of Crilar-Conciet, who led the ...

Tanasi published his findings — the earliest documented evidence for the presence and consumption of horse meat in early ...