Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered ...

Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

A new species of fossil from 444 million years ago that has perfectly preserved insides has been affectionately named "Sue" ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

With two-fingered hands and long "nasty" claws, the Duonychus tsogtbaatari is certainly a strange sight. Fossils of this ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human ...

A paleontologist discovered a new species of fossil from 444 million years ago she calls an "inside-out, legless, headless ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.

Fossils are usually associated with dinosaur bones or ancient sea creatures preserved in stone. But scientists now believe that modern waste – from polyester clothing to electronic devices ...