When you go fossil hunting, there's the chance that you'll uncover something that's never been seen before, at least not for ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

A chance discovery by an Acadiana landowner uncovered mammoth remains that researchers say could reveal new clues about ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

"We analysed the fossil record and found that the quality of the record of four groups of dinosaur (clades) gets worse during the final 6 million years prior to the asteroid. The probability of ...

An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought. Large language models ...

Ancient fossil beans about the size of modern limes, and among the largest seeds in the fossil record, may provide new insight into the evolution of today's diverse Southeast Asian and Australian ...

Inside San Diego’s Natural History Museum, Tom Deméré pulled out drawers that line cabinets in the paleontology department.

Predation dynamics in the fossil record encompass the study of predator–prey interactions preserved over geological time through physical traces such as drill holes, shell repair scars and crushing ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...