Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels ...
A fossil found in Argentina is changing how scientists see the origins of snakes. The remains of __Najash rionegrina__ show ...
“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...
A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...
A rare Antarctic fossil reveals how early fish lived and hunted just before animals began moving onto land 380 million years ...
Could the strangest bee nursery ever recorded in history have existed inside the skeleton of another creature? This is exactly what paleontologists have discovered in a limestone cave on the Caribbean ...
Scottish fossil fish, Megalichthys pygmaeus, reveals new details about the skull and provides clues about species from a coal ...
Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...
A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...