Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

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In a state better known for its delicious seafood and as the home of the United States Navy, there’s a new effort to create ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

New Jersey is home to not one, but two, of the best new museums in the United States, according to the USA TODAY 10BEST ...

Ancient bees built nests in the hollows of rodent skulls, a new study suggests L. Viñola López et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 People often appreciate fossils for the insights ...

When fieldwork began at 10 in the morning, Sharon Lord didn’t expect much as she knelt in the sandy clay and settled in for another long day of careful digging at the Montbrook fossil site, about a 45 ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...