The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum and is one of the most culturally important volcanic events in history. The rediscovery of the incredibly ...

370-million-year-old tracks unearthed on West Campus spark a Duke paleontologist’s quest to uncover the fossil’s story In late March, Curt Farmer got a request to remove walkway stone near Bostock ...

Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new study. Jurassic ...

These were no mean feet. Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest two-legged animals ever to ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

A major dinosaur trackway, 166 million years old, has been discovered in Oxfordshire. This find reveals hundreds of footprints from giant creatures like Cetiosaurus and Megalosaurus. These ancient ...

A field photo taken by the joint expedition team from Okayama University of Science and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Okayama, Japan- A joint dinosaur survey conducted ...

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