Newfound Species

A tiny Cretaceous mammal lived among the northernmost dinosaurs on Earth.

Paleontologists have unearthed a new 69 million-year-old mammal species in the North Slope of Alaska.

A newfound dinosaur seems to wear its heart on its tail, according to paleontologists who found the enormous beast and realized this "hopeless romantic" had heart-shaped tail bones.

Talk about romantic! This teenage titanosaur had heart-shaped tail bones.

With tentacle-covered snouts, claw-like spines that protrude from their heads and bodies covered in armor, these newfound catfish look more myth than reality.

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.

When Mike Poben, an opal buyer and and fossil fanatic, bought a bucket of opal from an Australian mine, he was surprised to find to find what looked like an ancient tooth in the pile.

Dinosaurs that lived during the early Jurassic period could stop and smell the flowers if they so desired, according to a new study that describes the oldest fossil flower on record.

A blind, worm-like amphibian species has a new and presidential name.

The newly identified dinosaur Saltriovenator zanellai was found in the Italian Alps.