The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled from a depth of 177 feet, NOAA Fisheries reports. The “once-in-a-lifetime” ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

a paleontologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who was not involved with the research. The results ...

Experts have discovered a 450-million-year-old 3D fossil of a spider relative preserved in fool’s gold. Fossils offer a ...

The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the ...

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A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets ... a paleontologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who was ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...

which is the “official state fossil of Utah,” according to the Natural History Museum of Utah. The dinosaurs roamed about 150 million years ago, and NHMU said more Allosaurus fossils have been found ...