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

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist ...

Geologists have uncovered the fossil of a mosasaur, an ancient aquatic predator, in Mississippi. Often referred to as a “sea ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

Clayton Phipps looks over the massive ceratopsian fossil. The ancient creature’s rib cage is on the left and the pelvis on the right. Robert Clark The Dinosaur Cowboy sits behind an old desk in ...

The Trump administration has pledged to kill federal policies that penalize the fossil fuels industry or that hint of diversity, equity and inclusion. The fact that this program does both all but ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

El Salvador’s President Quietly Questioned U.S. Over Deportees’ Gang Ties New details about the Trump administration’s plan to send migrants to El Salvador raise questions about how U.S ...