A group of geology students from Sul Ross State University that were being led by professors Dr. Jesse Kelsch and Dr. Thomas Schiller visited Big Bend National Park in Texas to study rock layers and ...

Carlos Savignano is part of a dedicated group of FossiLab volunteers preparing Smithsonian fossils for display and future ...

Paleontologists are flocking to the recently discovered bird-like dinosaur fossil named Fujianvenator prodigiosus. Unearthed in 2022, this fossil revealed surprising details that turn previous ideas ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...

This is especially significant as it is the first fossil proof of dinosaurs preying on mammals in the Jehol Biota ecosystem in northeastern China, a region famed for its well-preserved dinosaur bones.

However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...