Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Explore the fascinating discovery of the African predator Bastetodon syrtos, an ancient prehistoric carnivore from Egypt.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A cosmic fossil record The team tackled the challenging task of determining the spin of black holes using the SDSS’s Reverberation Mapping project. This project has been making extremely precise ...

Fossil evidence suggests ... that we sometimes think about evolution,” Correa-Narvaez said. DNA analysis of modern plants reveals that angiosperms split from other plants long before they began to ...

According to researchers, the discovery highlights the importance of Antarctica in the evolution of modern birds ... “And those few places with any substantial fossil record of Late Cretaceous birds ...

The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, addresses this issue by using advanced modeling techniques to account for gaps in the fossil record. The researchers ... the missing chapters ...

Joel says this could show "significant gaps" in the fossil record. While the earliest-known dinosaurs share certain traits, they have differences that suggest millions of years of evolution had ...

A tourist has died after being trampled by an elephant while visiting Kruger National Park in South Africa, officials say. The animal "charged and trampled" the victim on Saturday, according to a ...