Say hello to Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, a parasite that lived way back in the Jurassic, but one that’s been scrambling ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Nature craves novelty. A look around the wide earth shows her hands engaged in eternal experiments—mixing this with that, ...

New Drone-Assisted 3D Model Offers a More Accurate Way to Date Dinosaur Fossils May 6 ... May 1, 2025 — Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace?

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Long before neighborhoods sprawled across North Texas, ancient seas teemed with formidable marine reptiles. One of those long ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the U.K. more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

"Their remains have been uncovered primarily in areas that were once submerged by ancient seas, such as parts of the San Diego Formation." Other dinosaur fossils found in California include ...

A coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," was spotted in eastern Indonesia in a rare sighting of a species once ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

Coelacanths are marine vertebrates, often known as "living fossils" or "dinosaur fish," that date back over 400 million years ago, longer than dinosaurs themselves. There are two types ...