Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Traskasaura sandrae is a "very odd" mix of primitive and derived traits. A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

(Reuters) - A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - one day roughly 150 million ...

Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the ...

Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...

Scientists perform postmortem examinations on two fossils Two Pterodactylus hatchlings had identical wing fractures They lived 150 million years ago during Jurassic Period Sept 19 (Reuters) - A ...