Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Teeth from extinct species like Otodus obliquus (an ancestor of the legendary Megalodon) are commonly found in New Jersey’s ...

The balance of different varieties of atoms inside a person’s teeth can reveal a week-by-week record of rainfall and protein ...

A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

Blood vessel structures found preserved in a famous T rex fossil are helping scientists understand how dinosaurs healed from injuries. A study published recently in the journal Scientific Reports ...

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world's most important fossil discoveries have been made.

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) said a portion of a lower jaw of an American ...

The fossils, found in the Bayanshiree Formation in southeastern Mongolia, had been studied in the 1970’s by paleontologist Altangerel Perle. Perle likened the fossils to another medium-sized ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

Published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the study combines two fossil slabs separated for nearly a ...