In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the ...

The extinct Otodus megalodon, or “megalodon,” remains an iconic apex predator, known for its massive size and fearsome teeth. Growing up to 65 feet in length, the megatooth shark preyed on large ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

atomic blast just a mile away. Here’s the story of this living fossil that refuses to age—or die. In the first three seconds after “Little Boy” detonated over Hiroshima, temperatures ...

Javeria Wasim went on an all-liquid diet for six weeks after fracturing her jaw in two places on the popular children’s candy Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

You can channel your inner paleontologist at the fossil dig, where you might unearth a tooth from a creature that lived ... Step into the Atlantic Tails exhibit, and you’ll find yourself eye-to-eye ...

Officials with the Albany-based state museum said the jaw was the first complete mastodon jaw found in New York in 11 years. They said there have been more than 150 fossils from the extinct elephant ...

Alongside the jaw, researchers also uncovered a toe bone fragment and a piece of a rib. The discovery began in the Hudson Valley when the Orange County resident noticed two large teeth protruding from ...

It didn't take much to excavate these fossils. (New York State Museum) The man decided to call in professionals from the New York State Museum and SUNY (State University of New York) Orange to ...

A prehistoric discovery was found in the backyard of a home in Orange County. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found sticking right out of the soil. It’s the first discovery of its kind in our ...