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.

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 ...

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

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had ...

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 ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

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

Palaeontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour ...

“Within eight million years, the ancestors of whales go from being fully terrestrial, such as the four-legged, furry ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...