New research reveals that in some of the most inhospitable parts of the ocean depths, a blue volcanic mud contains evidence ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Last month, The Master’s University’s paleontology program and fossil discovery were spotlighted in a press release sent out ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Careful digging eventually revealed a complete Ice Age mammoth tusk that measures at 7 feet, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said in an Aug. 9 press release. Mississippi Department of ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The last-ditch struggle of Tongtianlong limosus as it was mired in mud is seen in an undated artist reconstruction ...

Unearthed in 2022 at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossil belongs to Homo erectus or a close relative, showing us a major clue about how early humans made their way across ...

A new study analyzed four sets of fossil footprints, including cat-like tracks in 29-million-year-old volcanic ash in Oregon.

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...