It’s not every day that a gravel quarry turns into a paleontological goldmine, but that’s exactly what happened here. A ...

A SEA creature thought to be 190 million years old has finally been named 24 years after it was found on the English coast.

A controlled explosion in the quarry removes millions of years of limestone rock, allowing the palaeontologists the more ...

London (CNN) — For any fans of Jurassic Park, now could be the chance to tread the same path as the prehistoric giants before us, after a set of well-preserved dinosaur footprints were unearthed on a ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemi ...

Nobody had ever found a specimen like Borealopelta before. Paleontologists have been studying nodosaurs since the 1830s, but nobody had ever found a specimen like Borealopelta before. The key to its ...

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The giant space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs may have set off a chain of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions on land and undersea, claims a new study that is already dividing ...

The new IMAX 3-D film Sea Rex starts off with a groaner. Standing in front of a shark tank, a young woman named Julie gazes wistfully into the blue water and imagines a plesiosaur paddling through the ...