Along the coast of South Africa, strange rocky formations quietly grow in places where life seems unlikely to survive. These ...
We finally cut open fossil coral that formed over 20 million years ago. Inside was something completely unexpected. Minerals slowly replaced the coral over time, creating crystal patterns inside the ...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...
Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...
Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California ...
Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.
Scientists analyzed the world's only remaining looping dinosaur trackway in Colorado, revealing a 150 million-year-old ...
In 2019, local school principal Ross Dullard found a partial skull of a Janjucetus – an extinct baleen whale – while on a walk near Jan Juc on Victoria’s Surf Coast. The 25-million-year-old fossil was ...