As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats away at the landscape, slowly turning rock into mud.

Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur.The ...

Researchers Baffled After Mistaking Young Turtle Shells to be Oval-Shaped Plant Fossils, Bones Looked Like Plant Veins A ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

SPRINGFIELD — A revamped exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum begins with an eastern box turtle as a greeter, a colony ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...