The students traveled to Carlin, Nevada for their field trip. The fossil site was likely once a riverbed or a shallow lake area and contained fossils from an abundance of prehistoric animals that once ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site have discovered the remains of a giant salamander that once called prehistoric Appalachia home. According to a news release from ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly how the earliest known bird could fly.

Discoveries from a well-preserved Archaeopteryx fossil reveal new insights into early bird evolution, showcasing unique features like specialized feathers and an immobile skull.

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists from Durham University and Yunnan University as something ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Mississippi State University researchers have uncovered a large mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, potentially the largest of its kind found in Mississippi.

Just two specimens of Keurbos susanae, an unusually well preserved fossil arthropod, have been found.

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

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