The earliest traces of life to be found in the Barton area of the southern end of the Hampshire basin are in the form of ...

The deep sea remains one of Earth’s final frontiers, harboring creatures so bizarre they challenge our imagination. Below 200 meters, where sunlight struggles to penetrate, evolution has crafted ...

With a body resembling an eel more than a typical shark, the frilled shark represents another living fossil swimming in deep waters ... crustaceans, and echinoderms. Male chimaeras possess retractable ...

The fossil is now back at the SRSU paleontology lab, where students and researchers are carefully studying it, along with associated vertebrae previously collected from the same quarry.

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and fossil enthusiast, found the piece after the 2024 storm washed away sand ...

KIMBERLY, Ore. (KTVZ) — A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints dating back as far as 50 million years ...

But the US has in fact obstructed climate action for decades—largely due to damaging actions by the powerful fossil fuel industry. In 20 years studying attacks on climate science and the ...

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...