A fossil discovery in Mistelgau, Northern Bavaria, Germany, reveals that the last representatives of the giant ichthyosaurs of the genus Temnodontosaurus survived longer in the Southwest German Basin ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

As Earth shifts to climates not seen for several hundred thousand years, we may need to look at ancient environments for ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed.After bones break down, tooth enamel ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

Bill Eibner and Brea Wear were on a gravel (sand) bar searching for fossils and artifacts on the Cottonwood River just east ...

The 'Kraken' of Norse mythology is one of the most famous sea monsters, often depicted as a giant octopus attacking passing ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

A fossil discovery in Mistelgau, Northern Bavaria, Germany, reveals that the last representatives of the giant ichthyosaurs of the genus Temnodontosaurus survived longer in the Southwest German Basin ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

At first, this feels like a simple year-end countdown of fossils, bottles, shark teeth, and rare finds. But the real ...