Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of two previously unknown species of prehistoric sharks in the deep ...

Paleontologists have identified Mosura fentoni, a three-eyed predator from the Cambrian Period, based on over 60 fossils ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

Around 500,000 years ago, at the corner of what is now Jamboree Road and the 405 freeway in sunny, bustling Orange County, a ...

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Since childhood, I've had an interest in paleontology - the study of fossils and what we can learn from them about prehistoric life. This field is primarily basic research - adding to knowledge about ...

Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by ...

"That emotion of finding the fossil and realizing what it is—that's indescribable," said Lazaro Viñola Lopez, a graduate student in paleontology ... armor made of bony plates called scutes ...

Sebecids were the last surviving members of Notosuchia, a large and diverse group of extinct crocodilians with a fossil record that extends back ... in length and had protective armor made of bony ...

Sebecids had armored bodies with tough bony plates beneath their skin ... describing the new wave of excitement in Caribbean paleontology. In the Caribbean, fossil sites vanish quickly. Rain, wind, ...