For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

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

Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

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

Some fossil hunts turn into friendly competitions, and this one had a clear winner. She crushed me with an epic find in an ...

Jim Pollard is bringing bison bones, fossilized mammoth poop, and more to Blue Earth's 3,000 residents.

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

A fingertip-sized fossil uncovered in Montana revealed a tiny crocodile species. This unexpected find reshaped croc evolution ...