The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Some feathered dinosaurs like Anchiornis huxleyi may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was ...

Paleontologists have uncovered ancient fossils of a previously unknown aquatic arthropod suggest that the ancestors of modern ...

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

Researchers in Germany discovered a 180-million-year-old, well-preserved Ichthyosaur fossil, revealing it survived severe jaw ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas — A Texas paleontologist has made a discovery that could re-write what scientists know about prehistoric life in the state. In March, John Moretti, a paleontologist with the ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

Several millions of years ago, before the existence of modern cities, forests, rivers, and many other things in India, there ...