At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs.

Few moments in paleontology are as exciting as the discovery of dinosaur eggs. These fragile and ancient specimens offer a ...

The now-extinct sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, was discovered thanks to an examination of 21-million-year-old ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

Buried for 147 million years, a massive fossil unearthed in China is rewriting everything scientists thought they knew about ...

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

The team more closely examined the bones of the specimen now named Ahshiselsaurus wimani and compared them with bones of ...

The West African nation was among a group of countries that pushed for a deal to reduce fossil fuels. Some of the world’s poorest countries won a partial victory at the COP30 climate talks — but not ...

This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of an historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...