A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...

During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, archaeologists discovered two Early Cretaceous fossils estimated to be between 145 and 140 million years old that were mixed in with ancient Roman ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...

A new species of ancient lizard is discovered in Utah. The lizard, named Bolg amondol, lived 75 million years ago. It was found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The fossil was ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

image: A rendering of the newly discovered salamander. view more Credit: Matthew Inabinett/ETSU A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete Denisovan fossil to date.

University of Kansas paleontologists discover giant hedgehog-sized marsupial relative from Paleocene Texas fossil collections ...

A remarkable discovery has just redefined Australia’s frog evolution. A 55-million-year-old fossil, is rewriting our understanding of frog history, pushing back the timeline of Australian tree ...