The team of researchers discovered a large number of squid fossils from rocks of the late Cretaceous period using a technique ...

Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

A new genus of sea monster has just been officially identified, and it’s a palaeontological weirdo. The new species has been named Traskasaura sandrae, and is described as “very odd” owing ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Fossils are made in lots of different ways, like these Jurassic ammonites which are a now extinct species of mollusc.

Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species Date: May 23, 2025 Source: Taylor & Francis Group Summary: A mysterious sea monster fossil ...

An iconic and much-loved ancient sea monster has been revealed to be an entirely new and "very odd" species of plesiosaur—solving a nearly 40-year-old fossil mystery. Traskasaura sandrae, which ...

Fossils of ammonites, though, are abundant, which means there are plenty of good references for researchers interested in studying their shells — and building robotic models.

How many species would these time-traveling biologists identify? And how many of those species have left bones recognizable as such in the fossil record?

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 ...