Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about early ocean predators. New fossil discoveries show that modern-type sharks ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Are you curious as to how you'd get Pokemon from fossils and amber in Pokemon Legends: Z-A? While you can catch over 200 creatures in the game, a ...

Take a step into the fossil bed at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, and you’ll find yourself completely immersed in the past. That’s because it’s the Garden State’s ...

Megaraptorans were known for their elongated skulls and powerful claws. Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within ...

Over the past 18 years, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in New Jersey has yielded over 100,000 fossils belonging to more than 100 species. That’s a pretty remarkable fossil hotspot–especially ...

Hundreds of millions of years later, these species are nearly indistinguishable from their prehistoric ancestors. A horseshoe crab is seen swimming along the sea floor in coastal waters surrounding ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of damaged hemoglobin in the hollow, blood vessel–like structures of dinosaur fossils. The researchers used a novel technique they hope may put an enduring ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil in Morocco of a dinosaur species that roamed the plains of northern Africa at least 165 million years ago, featuring a dangerous tail and "extreme" armor. A group ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...