Fossil

Paleontologists have unearthed a 66-million-year-old mosasaurine tooth in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, the United States.…

We all know dinosaurs left their mark on Earth but a new study has revealed the highest number…

Paleontologists have performed a comprehensive anatomical reassessment of the fossilized remains of two coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the…

Nanotyrannus lancensis — long thought by many to be a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex — was in fact a…

Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are usually 4 to 5 m long…

A new species of the sauropod dinosaur genus Mamenchisaurus has been discovered in China dating back to the…

The Lamniformes are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks. It includes some of the most…

In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at…

The exceptionally long neck of Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis contained 42 cervical vertebrae, according to a research team led by…

A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern…

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace…

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history.…

Mosasaurs Could Inhabit Freshwater Environments, New Fossil Discovery Suggests