Traskasaura sandrae is a "very odd" mix of primitive and derived traits. A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

An international team of scientists unearthed a remarkable diversity of fossil eggshells in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation, challenging long-held assumptions about the prehistoric ecosystems of ...

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile. Dubbed Quaestio ...

Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary tree.

In a fossilized chunk of ancient reptilian poo, scientists have uncovered complete specimens of a new beetle species. The finding, described June 30 in Current Biology, suggests that fossilized dung ...

(CNN) — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along ...