A fossilized creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago finally has an official name. The small, ...

The Atlantic Shark Institute is asking beachgoers for assistance searching for fossilized shark teeth. Jon Dodd, executive ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...

Mississippi is rich in fossils from creatures that lived long ago, and in recent years, many fascinating finds have turned up. In 2024, Sherry Couey of Rosedale found a part of a jaw from a saber ...

Until now, the most recent fossils of sebecids were found in Colombia and dated to about 10.5-12.5 million years ago. The ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

Historically, many paleontologists in the Caribbean have excavated fossils from caves and blue holes, where large accumulations of remains are often found. Caves can serve as shelter against harsh ...

If more specimens were to be found, with their heads and legs, we could be more certain about where this fossil fitted in the scheme of life. But the site where I found it has been covered in a ...