We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

The scientific term for fossilized vomit is regurgitalite. Surprisingly, the timeless throw up is far from the oldest out ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

The mystery of dinosaur origins has taken an unexpected turn toward the equator. While paleontologists have long searched ...

Researchers Uncover Fossils of 150-Million-Year-Old Pliosaurs From the Jurassic Period, Helped Them to Conceptualize the Food ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

“Pterosaur bones are very delicate – so finding fossils where another animal has clearly taken a bite is exceptionally ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...