Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of ...

OXFORDSHIRE, England (CBS, KYMA) - Dinosaur fans, this one's for you as scientists have uncovered a giant set of tracks over ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

Two hundred and forty five million years ago, 95 percent of all species were extinguished from the face of the earth. A little more than 200 years ago, naturalists in Maastricht, Netherlands unearthed ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemical fossils in rocks, researchers identified ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – Researchers from Marshall University in West Virginia have helped make a breakthrough in the world of paleontology. While working with an international investigative team ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

An artist's illustration shows Deinosuchus riograndensis swimming with an early alligator relative in the wetlands of the Western Interior Seaway in southwestern North America, during the Late ...

ZEALAND, Denmark (WKRC) - An amateur fossil hunter made a historically significant (and slightly disgusting) discovery: fossilized animal vomit from over 66 million years ago. A man was hunting for ...

That’s according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which detected ...