Analyses of the remains showed that Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki belongs to the group of toothed whales but differs ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles ...

The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years. Here’s how the ancient frogs compare to those of today.

We are living on a planet already hotter and more unstable than at any time in human history. Pretending otherwise will only ...

A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled ...

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

Researchers settled on the name "Heleocola," or "swamp dweller," because it likely lived by rivers and swampy locations ...

A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

The metropolis is an important center for paleontological research, but until now, fossils of plants and fish were the only ...

The rocks indicate an ancient, iron-rich environment, but the rover wasn't able study details of the rock's composition.

Now that dinosaur fossils have been discovered, people will again notice that the natural foundation of Hong Kong is actually ...