One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck transiting through the country from Spain ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

A 183-million-year-old fossil with exceptionally well-preserved soft tissues has revealed that some plesiosaurs were covered ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.