On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science.

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

The fossil of a pony-sized dinosaur has been revealed for the first time - more than 50 years after it was first spotted in a ...

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

These long-extinct, fearsome creatures are turning up in living rooms and corporate offices as wealthy collectors indulge a controversial hobby. A Kaatedocus siberi stands among an eclectic mix of ...

A recently uncovered fossil location in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin suggests that some terrestrial ecosystems were only marginally affected by the most cataclysmic extinction event in Earth’s history, ...

Now researchers have conducted the first detailed analysis of plesiosaur soft tissue, offering a more complete look at what these real-life sea monsters might have looked like when they lived from ...

He combines geochemistry with the fossil record to try to understand ... comes from chemical studies of ancient sea life and sediments, Kipp said. Applying some of those methods to terrestrial plants ...

During large periods of Earth's geological history, huge swaths of the United Kingdom were immersed beneath a prehistoric sea ... include shark teeth, fossil wood, and plant fossils—including ...