The first set of fossils, found in 1988 along the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, were determined to belong to elasmosaurs, a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late ...

The unique features of Mosura fentoni astounded paleontologists. Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant ...

Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated ...

Science professor Martin Becker accused William Paterson University and mail room supervisor, Raymond Boone, of being negligent when he trusted them with fossils. Becker has spent hundreds of ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the ...

Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse ...

What’s often overlooked, though, is that their environment also contained artefacts from an ancient past: the San lived and hunted among fossil footprints, bones, skulls and teeth of long ...

Queensland Museum and James Cook University scientists are using AI to unlock the mysteries of our fossil past. The scientists have developed an AI-based technique that has sped up the analysis of ...

Scientists in Brazil identified marine worms that made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites. By Priyanka Runwal If you know where to look, you can find dumbbell-shaped fossils in ...

When the “Peking Man” fossils went missing during World War II, the loss was considered one of the greatest tragedies in the history of paleoanthropology. After almost 80 years of searching ...

The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, shed new light on the fascinating creatures. Trilobites were very abundant marine arthropods, protected by calcified ...