The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears a striking resemblance: these organisms are referred to as "living fossils". In other ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

Meet some of your famous family members. / Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (skull); filo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (background) Here are 10 ...

One in a billion bones becomes a fossil — even fewer turn into opal. In a pocket of north-western New South Wales, two pioneering women are uncovering relics of our deep past. In a small room ...

In fact, as Lomankus is derived from the Greek for Edgecombe, the fossil has been named after Greg twice. Dr Luke Parry, the lead author of the study published in Current Biology, says that Greg has ...