The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Long extinct, they won’t be found but fossils of some of them and other creatures unearthed during construction of the ...

I wouldn’t want to make that illegal, to stop people from collecting their own fossils. The real issue here is these very rare, very unusual, very scientifically important, one of a kind dinosaur ...

“Sasayama” comes from the Sasayama Basin, which is where the fossils were found. And “gnomus” is Latin for gnome, a creature ...

A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus?

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Imagine being so in love with your hobby that you spend more than half your life on it. Mark Daniel doesn’t have to imagine ...

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa.

Researchers have discovered a new species of triceratops-like dinosaur using fossils found in Japan ... Brendan Rascius is a McClatchy national real-time reporter covering politics and ...