Scientists say they have evidence of sea turtles trying to escape an earthquake on the rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

A newly discovered fossil marine lizard withrazor-sharp teeth is offering scientists a rare glimpse into life at the very end ...

Groundbreaking research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery – fossils of the world’s oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among ...

One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, ...

Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

Learn about three momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record Paul M. Barrett Scientists who study dinosaurs make new discoveries in the field, extracting previously unknown specimens from the ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...