When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

The fossil vomit was found at the Bromacker site in central Germany, one of the few sites that preserves a fully terrestrial ...

Scientists discovered a bizarre 275-million-year-old aquatic animal with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw in Brazil, ...

New research suggests that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago ...

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new species of dicynodont — an extinct group of mammalian species that appeared long before the dinosaurs — challenging past paleontological assumptions about ...

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw ...