About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, ...

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.

Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ...

A scan of the bone found that the edges of the puncture don’t match the break points on the rest of the bone, meaning it wasn’t caused during the fossilization process, and cemented and compacted ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for the birthplace of dinosaurs, based on the locations of the currently oldest-known dinosaur fossils, the evolutionary relationships among these ...

A recent scientific discovery published in the journal Nature Communications has unveiled compelling evidence of the presence ...

A new study has cast light on the extinction of many of Australia’s kangaroos, challenging beliefs that the world’s changing ...

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

A recent scientific paper published in the Nature Communications journal revealed evidence of “hominin activity” dating back ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.