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Museum Reassessment Identifies Praearcturus gigas as a One‑Metre Scorpion

Modern imaging links Praearcturus to the Canadian scorpion Eramoscorpius, prompting revisions to fossil records.

Early Asexuality Slowed Animal Evolution, Study Finds

New Four‑Winged Microraptorine Jian changmaensis Described From China’s Changma Basin

Metre-Long Scorpion Praearcturus Gigas Confirmed From Devonian Fossils

New Québec Fossil Narrows Late‑Cambrian Furongian Gap

Museum ‘Mammoth’ Bones Reidentified as Ancient Whales

New Cretaceous Bird Plumadraco Has Tail Feathers Twice Its Body Length

Scientists Name Labrujasuchus expectatus, a Two‑Legged, Beaked Croc Relative from Ghost Ranch

Scientists Name Giant Texas Mosasaur Tylosaurus Rex

Study Links Tiny T. Rex Arms to Evolution of Massive Robust Skulls

New Fossil Koala Species Identified in Western Australia

Study Shows Smaller Tyrannosaur Scavenged a Larger One

New Fossils Reveal Toothed Platypus With Strong Bite in Ancient Australian Lakes

First Confirmed Egg From a Mammal Ancestor Found in 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Reclassified as Nautiloid After High-Energy X-Ray Study

Mummified Permian Reptile Reveals Oldest Rib-Powered Breathing System

Late Ediacaran Fossils in China Push Back Origins of Major Animal Groups

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

Oldest Chelicerate Fossil Dates to 500 Million Years Ago

500-Million-Year-Old Chelicerate Pushes Back Spider Lineage by 20 Million Years