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Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of [...]

Byline: Jiselle Lee Eddie Templeton traces his love of fossil-hunting to walks along a local creek as a boy in central Mississippi, trawling for bits of fossilized tree bark and [...]

Byline: Frances Vinall An apex predator with a two-foot skull dominated by huge fangs, which lurked in fresh water in a time before the dinosaurs, has been discovered by a [...]

Fossils found by an avocado farmer in the Australian Outback are those of a new species of pterosaur, the prehistoric flying reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Kevin Peterson, who [...]

Two brothers, their father and a cousin were hiking in the North Dakota Badlands in 2022 when they found the bones of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex. In the summer of [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel The specimen was broken and weatherworn, nearly hidden by the dirt, but to the three boys standing over it in the North Dakota badlands, it was unmistakable [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Ancient, fossilized grape seeds from Panama, Colombia and Peru, provide perspective on the evolution of plants after [...]

A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today's blue whales. Last August, a team of paleontologists announced that they [...]

Byline: IVAN SEMENIUK; Staff A beach umbrella with a frizzy hairdo? A palm tree on steroids? A piece of scenery from The Lorax? However you describe it, a newly reported [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick While examining dinosaur fossils for a school project a few years ago, Kyle Atkins-Weltman noticed a few irregularities. He set out to study bones that were believed [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick While examining dinosaur fossils for a school project a few years ago, Kyle Atkins-Weltman noticed a few irregularities. He set out to study bones that were believed [...]

Byline: Sabrina Malhi A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists report Thursday in the journal [...]

KUNMING, December 24, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Construction of a highway service zone in southwest China's Yunnan Province has been suspended after paleontological fossils were discovered at the site. [...]

KUNMING, November 17, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese paleontologists have discovered what is potentially the earliest fossil evidence linking adult dinosaurs with nests. They have reported that the eggshells [...]

Byline: Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near [...]

Millions of years ago, this desert in Peru was a gathering place for fantastical sea creatures: whales that walked, dolphins with walrus faces, sharks with teeth as large as a [...]

Byline: By, Hannah Kane A new shark species with bizarrely similar characteristics to humans has been discovered by scientists in Australia. The new species, named the painted hornshark -or heterodontus [...]

Byline: MADDIE BURAKOFF; ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badger-like creature chomping [...]

Byline: IVAN SEMENIUK; Staff When Karma Nanglu was growing up in Toronto, the fossil collection at the Royal Ontario Museum was a source of endless fascination. But while the dinosaur [...]