Scientists in China just found something amazing. It's the world's smallest cat fossil found in China, and it belongs to a ...

A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to ...

A mislabelled fossil, forgotten and sitting in a museum drawer for decades is actually more special than previously thought. The skull fossil belongs to an ancient species of saber-toothed cat that ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in eastern China. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of ...

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a 6-centimeter-wide, nondescript mass of bone ...

The newly discovered fossils, dating back to roughly 5 million years ago, could have implications for human bipedalism, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Paleontologists recently revisited a ...

A baby rusty-spotted cat, born at a French zoo in 2010. The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same genus as modern rusty-spotted cats, which are among the smallest felines in the ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) – The remains of two possibly prehistoric cats were recovered this week from deep with Natural Bridge Caverns in Comal County, just north of San Antonio. The remains of the ...

LOS ANGELES – Scientists have unearthed the oldest big cat fossil yet, suggesting the predator – similar to a snow leopard – evolved in Asia and spread out. The nearly complete skull dug up in Tibet ...