A skull found 25 years ago in northern Mexico has led to the definition of a new species of marine reptile, scientists announced this month.

KAINAN, Wakayama -- A demonstration of a robot modeled after the newly discovered ancient mosasaur species "Wakayama Soryu" ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in western Hungary is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about one of the ocean’s most ...

Scientists reveal how microbes preserved a 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur as a stunning three-dimensional fossil now ...

A fossil discovery from Alabama reveals a rare and dramatic glimpse into the dangers of Cretaceous oceans, where even top predators were vulnerable.

Lyme Regis Museum has shared the discovery of the rare crocodile maxilla (upper jaw bone) - discovered during one of its recent guided fossil walks along the Jurassic Coast. The fossil was discovered ...

"What we see is that it was an active hunter, which tells us a lot about how we can compare it, for example, to modern-day orcas." ...

The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and South. It was a ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world’s best-preserved fossils formed in ancient oxygen-free ocean floor settings. The research, published in ...

Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil species, Pluridens imelaki, from the Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits in ...

A fossil found in Alabama captures a sudden, violent encounter between two massive marine predators. A broken tooth, still lodged in bone after 80 million years, reveals a strike that likely killed ...