A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of ...

In a surprising twist, agarbage dump in Spain, has turned into a hotspot for ancient fossils. The Can Mata landfill, which ...

In a historic breakthrough from Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have made a discovery of two new species of sharks, giving insight into the prehistoric sea life of the world.

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

The dinosaur’s bones are being held at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. There are no plans to put the ...

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.

"In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them," the ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...

Breugnathair elgolensis is the first of a new family of squamates called Parviraptoridae, described as “an enigmatic group with potential importance for snake origins, that was previously known from ...