A groundbreaking discovery reveals over 50 coelacanth fossils, some mistaken for marine reptiles for over 150 years.

Learn why fossil specimens once branded as marine reptiles are now being recognized as coelacanths that lived in shallow seas ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester paleontologists in a post-mortem 150 ...

Where was the pterosaur discovered? The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona is known for producing fossils of plants and animals from the Triassic time period, Reuters reported.

The Outback region is now covered in dusty, red dirt, but it was once a vast inland body of water known as the Eromanga sea.

During excavations in Meride, southern Switzerland, researchers from the Ticino natural history museum discovered for the ...