LAMBERT: The lives of pterosaurs are still pretty mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, their bones are actually quite delicate, and so fossils are rare. This find turned out to be a juvenile, ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

a new cast of fossils appeared above them: mammals. This mammal moment got a name that spelled out its newness: the Eocene, or dawn of the modern era. It spawned, among other creatures ...

had symmetrical teeth and a prominent nasal horn. The name refers to the ancient name for Egypt, “Tamery”, the promised land, and honors Stromer's fossil collector Richard Markgraf ...

Sabre-toothed predators – best know from the infamous Smilodon – evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study, published today in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth were ...

Tour guides at SLAC, as it is known today, refer to the fossils as being the lab’s first discovery. The name of the primeval creature has changed over the years. Originally known as Paleoparadoxia, it ...

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and ...

The sabre tooth is an adaption so advantageous it independently evolved at least five separate times in ancient mammals. Now, new research has discovered predators developed these giant canines ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest known cat fossil at a site inhabited by archaic humans in eastern China. This diminutive feline, which has been identified as an extinct species of leopard ...

Our first prehistoric hunt in a creek loaded with history! Fossils and shark teeth in every shovel full! Crazy fun hunt! Tons of great finds all older that megalodon! Alabama fossils and shark teeth!