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

He used a relatively new, extremely sensitive method to date both the fossils and the rocks around them. He determined that ...

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

Fossils of arthropods are rare ... “Although pyrite forms very commonly today in fine-grained marine rocks, pyritization of ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

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.

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

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

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

During an outing in September, a geology professor and some students from The Master’s University (TMU) uncovered something quite remarkable in the famed Vasquez Rocks just northeast of Santa Clarita.

"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 ...

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