believes that the new Nature Communications study contradicts the opinion that survivors are the oldest 'living fossils'. "They first appear in the geological record more than 410 million years ...

Ginkgo Biloba&#039s lineage dates back more than 290 million years to the Permian period, even predating the era of the ...

Mammals (known scientifically as Mammalia) are the only living synapsids ... be about the same age as the other oldest gorgonopsians found in the fossil record," Angielczyk said.

When the fossil’s container stored at the Czech National Museum was examined for repacking in 2011, it turned out to be “the world's oldest fossilized large land plant.” An academic paper on ...

The specimen is believed to be the oldest salamander fossil found in Europe ... of anatomical features that do not exist in any living animal.” Salamanders, which include newts, are a type ...

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 ...

“Gorgonopsians are more closely related to mammals than they are to any other living ... the oldest known gorgonopsians lived roughly 265 million years ago. However, the new fossil is from ...

An "exceptional" 530-million-year-old fossil contains what could be the oldest eye ever discovered, according to scientists. The remains of the extinct sea creature include an early form of the ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

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 ...