But the new fossil is dated to between 270 and 280 ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine teeth." ...

Remarkably, the fossil seems to date to around ... it a little hard to be completely definitive that it's the oldest saber-toothed animal found so far because there's a chance it might be about ...

"This critically important evolutionary record demonstrates, for the first time, that predation played a pivotal role in the ...

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago in the ocean that once covered the region of South Australia.

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of ... shelled animal distantly related to brachiopods and an unknown ...

They may not be the oldest animals on Earth ... Its evolutionary history positions it as a “living fossil,” since it is the only surviving member of the entire lizard family Lanthanotidae ...

But fossil discovery in Wyoming is rewriting that story. Paleontologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have unearthed the oldest dinosaur ever found in North America – a creature they ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

The fossils were found in Mallorca ... and it wouldn’t have had dog-like ears,” says Angielczyk. “But it’s the oldest animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine ...

The fossil was from the early Jurassic period about 190 million years ago. But being the first does not mean it is the oldest. That title goes to a marine animal called the placoderm, also called ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ...