Well, the fern fossil record goes back to the Middle Devonian Period, roughly 290 million years ago. Realizing that new fossils might change the timeline, it appears the earliest dinosaurs were ...

A fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature, which researchers believe to be the first animal predator, has been named after the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.

Evidence was found deep in rock structures within Africa’s fossil-abundant nation of Gabon that suggest conditions for animal life started about 2.1 billion years ago, the BBC reported.

The approximately five-and-a-half-metre-long specimen was so perfectly preserved that researchers were able to stare into the ...

Paleontologists have revealed what may be the earliest known saber-toothed animal to have ever lived—a predator that roamed our planet before the age of the dinosaurs. In a study published in ...