Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January ... an icon, of African paleontology,” Ibrahim tells me. For more than two decades a cavalcade ...

The animal lived about 70 million to 75 million years ago in a part of the state that would likely have been a swampy environment.

Analyses of the remains showed that Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki belongs to the group of toothed whales but differs ...

The fossil was on display in a museum, but unlabeled and hidden right under paleontologists’ noses for 20 years.

This summer, a research team found enough fossils to qualify the specimen as one of the most complete contiguous Triceratops ...

Learn more about paleontological resources in the NPS with a focus on dinosaur fossils, how visitors can experience them, and the rules and regulations involved. The Paleo resources in our National ...

The stone tool and elephant butchery study was published in Quaternary Science Reviews. The taxonomy study was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...

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