WASHINGTON-In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...

Rowan University's long-awaited fossil museum is nearly ready to welcome visitors for a journey into South Jersey's distant past. The Edelman Fossil Park & Museum (EFM) will open in March 2025 at 66 ...

Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats ...

(Gray News) – A university professor and his team discovered a 94-million-year old fossil in Utah that could help provide new evolutionary information for a creature that swam the oceans during the ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up history. “It was a shot in the dark when we decided to core this lake ...

Back in the early days of gold mining in Virginia City, miners kept coming across what they thought was a useless blue mud. However, it turned out this blue mud was actually something quite valuable!

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The last-ditch struggle of Tongtianlong limosus as it was mired in mud is seen in an undated artist reconstruction ...