When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate ...

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

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...

Researchers studied fossils of two juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus from Germany’s Solnhofen limestone. The delicate skeletons ...

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the ...

New research shows iron carbonate preserved biomolecules in 300-million-year-old faeces, offering rare insights into ...

Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed Apex sold at auction for US $40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US $30.5 million just last month. Supporters of these sales argue that they're harmless, ...

Raleigh Parks and Recreation's 'All About Fossils' event educated attendees on fossil formation and significance in North Carolina.

Recent discoveries and events in science include a fossil of a baby pterosaur caught in ancient tropical storms, wild ...

Some sauropod bones only contain lesions on the inside, while others with more advanced infections show circular bump-like ...

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...