An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

A 151-million-year-old midge fossil from the Jurassic era revealed that freshwater insects might have first evolved in the ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

The name of a new species of fossil billfish honors a world-leading paleontologist who inspired generations of young ...

Scientists have proven Nanotyrannus was its own species, reshaping what we know about the predators that lived alongside T.

A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims. The 72-million-year-old fossil, described in 2021, includes a partial ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back ...

An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to new research. The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs 113 ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly ...