A painting of a griffin, a chimera of a predatory lion, together with the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur. The latter are said to have informed the cognition and…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites could be found all over the Earth. Clad in robust exoskeletons, the animals left behind countless fossils to be studied by paleontologists today.…
Researchers have identified a prehistoric marine reptile discovered in 1935 as a thalatosaurus, not a choristodera, using computed tomography and a new specimen. Reconstruction of Pachystropheus rhaeticusfigured next to a…
Scientists have discovered a 246-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile, the oldest of its kind found in the southern hemisphere, shedding new light on the early evolution of marine mammals.The…
Stavros Koundromichalis An artist's reconstruction of the oldest known marine reptile from the Southern Hemisphere: nothosaurs swimming along the ancient south polar coast of present-day New Zealand some 246 million…
A groundbreaking discovery of a 550-million-year-old marine sponge fossil offers new insights into the evolution of sponges and guides future fossil searches. Reconstructed life position of Helicolocellus on the Ediacaran…
As the bones encased in rock decayed, water-borne silica seeped into the cracks, solidifying into opal and preserving precious details for 100 million years. The resulting fossils now provide evidence…
A rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found by three children on a family hike in the North Dakota badlands nearly two years ago will soon be on display at the…
A major fossil discovery in Wales reveals that early dinosaurs lived in a tropical lowland by the sea more than 200 million years ago. The study identified rare marine and…
CNN — A stegosaurus skeleton described as the "most complete and best-preserved" of its kind ever found is expected to fetch up to $6 million at auction this summer —…