A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

According to George, the Central Valley is home to a number of significant fossil finds—including California's state dinosaur ...

Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

S et a time machine to around 275 million years ago and the Guadalupe Mountains would look like another world. Instead of ...

In Normandy, the situation is especially tense. For centuries, locals have been collecting 160-million-year-old, Jurassic-period fossils, ammonites, and other treasures from the beaches below the ...

Auction enthusiasts with deep pockets can also bid on a 13-inch ammonite fossil with predation marks from the Bearpaw Formation in Alberta, Canada. This colorful and iridescent ammonite is the ...

The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world. For the first time, scientists have an image of what ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it wasn’t an ordinary fossil. This particular find shimmered with the ...

Ammonite fossil collection. Image by jonnysek via Depositphotos. These forgotten fossils have profoundly impacted evolutionary theory by challenging pre-existing assumptions and filling in critical ...