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Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks of scales from lepidopterans—a family of winged insects including ...

Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...

Scientists in America have unearthed fossils from a number of animals, many of them previously unknown, dating back to the dinosaur era. The newly-found fossils, including those from a pterosaur, ...

The Museum at Texas Tech is showing off a new collection of prehistoric fossils, including the remains of one dinosaur named ...

View post: Arc'teryx's 'Fantastic' Beta SL Jacket Is $74 Off at REI Right Now Paleontologists discovered about 20,000 well-preserved dinosaur tracks from the Triassic period in the Alps. “This ...

From left to right: Dr. Hirokazu Yukawa, Professor Takafumi Kato, and Curator Kyoko Ikari examine the Triassic fossil-bearing rock that led to the discovery of Japan’s first ichthyosaur from western ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration by Brian Engh. Note to editors ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America. When you purchase through links on ...