Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

The fossilized skull of a pliosaur. Credit: Paleontological Research Center at Villa de Leyva Fossils of an extinct species of marine turtle (Desmarochelys padilla) from the Early Cretaceous in ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs.

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including ...

Several years ago my daughter and I took a minivacation to Kelleys Island, home of the famous Glacial Grooves. While we were there the island experienced an explosion of mayflies – they were ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of two new species of sturgeon fish in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota that were likely buried when the dinosaur-ending Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth.

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

Hardscrabble fossil hunters in Wyoming make astounding discoveries that change what we know about the earth’s history. The mining town of Kemmerer, in the Green River Formation, is ground zero for the ...

Work based on data from the Australian Astronomical Observatory has discounted one route for forming stars. The work is this week’s cover story in the journal Nature [7 October 2010]. In their paper ( ...