Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Most of us, by adulthood, have 32 teeth: eight incisors at the front, used for holding and cutting food; four canines, aka ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

A Beaufort man pleaded guilty in federal court following an investigation that found he illegally imported endangered whale ...