A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

The skeletons of over 100 prehistoric rhinos have been found at Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeast Nebraska, but why were there ...

Paleontologists uncover fossils of a massive sebecid crocodile, revealing its existence in the Caribbean long after it was ...

Geologists discovered a fossilised single vertebra of the giant sea lizard known as a mosasaur that lived during the late ...

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Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric treasures.