Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain ... In the 2010s, paleontologists found several intermediate species called darwinopterans. The specimens revealed that the head ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses.

The details of these new species can be found in a new article published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. “Biodiversity is disappearing faster than we can discover what we ...

they found striking levels of genetic differentiation, leading the researchers to conclude that these populations were not simply variants of Crocodylus acutus. The two new species have not yet ...

They had discovered a new species of ... the four other known species of mole crabs that make up the Emerita genus, according to the study. Emerita pangandaran was found on Pangandaran Beach ...