With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading ...

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving ...

The geologist publishes in Spain 'Listening to the Stones', where she tries to define our place in time: "Thinking of Earth as an inert and indolent piece of rock that we can deceive has led us to ...

Imagine a world where enormous beasts clash beneath the waves, locked in a struggle for survival. Picture a creature as long ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ...

and the specimens are being studied in the university's paleontology lab, the university said. 2025 The Charlotte Observer. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Citation: Huge fossil from ...

A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how complete it is. Credit: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and fossil enthusiast, found the piece after the 2024 storm washed away sand ...

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Paleontology Section offers fossil identification services for educational purposes, assisting collectors and members of the public.

Fossils were first discovered in the country in the 18th century, but interest in paleontology was turbocharged in the 1950s, when researchers found a large cache of dinosaur eggs in the stony ...