The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.
The International Geoheritage Site designation identifies such sites as being of the highest scientific value.
Learn more about how this rare find gives researchers a glimpse at the predator-prey relationship these prehistoric creatures had.
Modeling dinosaur evolution points researchers to potential fossil discoveries closer to the equator.
Joanna Gaines, 46, who has five children with husband Chip Gaines, shared the cutest photo on her Instagram of her youngest son Crew sleeping at home.
Fossil evidence discovered in southern Alberta suggests a crocodile-like creature bit a flying reptile 76 million years ago, according to a new study published Thursday in the Journal of Paleontology.
Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.
Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.
A significant area of Cretaceous rock exposures in northwest Montana has been recognized as an International Geoheritage Site, Montana State University announced on Thursday.
For more than 40 years, an area of Cretaceous rock exposures in northwest Montana has been the site of exciting fossil discoveries, including ones ...
In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds ...