A fossil trove uncovered in Wyoming is providing some of the best examples yet of an ancient species of alligator-sized amphibians. But while paleontologists describe the specimens as “exquisitely ...

DENVER – A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum’s fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.Researchers found the imprints in ...

Newly discovered proto-amphibian, Kermitops (USNM PAL 407585) from the Department of Paleobiology collections at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. The species is named ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

An illustration from the paper, depicting Ninumbeehan digging a burrow in a riverbed for the dry season and then re-emerging when the monsoon returned. Higher res tif file available on request at ...

The chance rediscovery of fossil specimens first found in WA's Kimberley in the 1960s has shed new light on an ancient predator. Palaeontologists have long thought there was a single species of marine ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

Evolution sometimes produces animals that look strikingly similar even when they are not closely related. This process, known ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

‘It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the water.' By Andrew Paul Published Apr 2, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular ...