Ancient skin pigments reveal that many turtles and "sea monsters" sported dark colors for tens of millions of years, a new study says.

When the dinosaurs walked the Earth, massive marine reptiles swam. Among them, a species of Ichthyosaur that measured over 80 feet long. Today, we look into how a chance discovery by a father-daughter ...

Leatherback sea turtles are the biggest sea turtle species, which can weigh over 1 ton, but they are also one of the most threatened.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons These ancient arthropods were thriving hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, and they kept their design through every mass extinction that followed. A hard shell, a ...

ZEALAND, Denmark (WKRC) - An amateur fossil hunter made a historically significant (and slightly disgusting) discovery: fossilized animal vomit from over 66 million years ago. A man was hunting for ...

A controlled explosion in the quarry removes millions of years of limestone rock, allowing the palaeontologists the more ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The exhibition is the largest dinosaur exhibition ever in Ireland, with over 250 real fossils and over five tonnes of ...

The discovery of predatory dinosaurs in marine sediments in Morocco suggests life was abundant and diversifying at the end of the Cretaceous period. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur species was discovered in Montana, a study released this month shows. Researchers discovered the fossils of Brontotholus harmoni, a dome-headed dinosaur in Montana, ...