A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...