For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.

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Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...

Just off Route 55 in New Jersey, behind the familiar glow of a Lowe’s parking lot, paleontologists have been pulling fossil bones from the dirt that date back over 66 million years—and not just any ...

How can we guess the size of an extinct animal when all that remains are a few scattered bones? A study conducted by ...

Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a ...