Fossil seashells in New York’s streambeds aren’t just cool finds - they’re clues to a time when the entire region was buried under a prehistoric sea. These imprints helped scientists rewrite Earth’s ...

Melbourne celebrates seashells at Wickham Park with exhibits, crafts, jewelry, prizes, expert ID and free entry Jan. 17 and ...

Students from Lompoc High School at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. (Caasi Chavez photo) On a recent foggy morning, a bus full of students from Lompoc High School unloaded near Diamond Corrals ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

A single mosasaur tooth in North Dakota suggests giant sea reptiles also ruled ancient rivers. Trump withdraws US from 31 bodies in UN, already in fiscal peril Ex-FBI agent breaks down Minnesota ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't safe from them in rivers either. Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the ...

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope each discovered troves of dinosaur fossils in the 19th century—but grew obsessed with bringing each other down in the Bone Wars. Men unearth the giant bones of a mammoth ...

Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans. Read the paper: Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo ...

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