The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there is a large gap in the fossil ... in the shale, found in the ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

Scientists look inside the fossilized stomach contents of a massive dinosaur. And, why some birds listen for prairie dogs’ ...

Illinois has plenty of natural wonders, but there’s one that stands head and shoulders above the rest like a towering white pine – aptly named White Pines Forest State Park in Mount Morris.

Fossils of the lizard-shaped animal itself were first found in 1876 near Tarkastad in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Since then, it’s been found in Brazil and Antarctica. But this is the first ...

“No genuine sauropod gut contents had ever been found anywhere before, despite sauropods being known from fossils found on every continent and despite the group being known to span at least ...

Nipponopterus mifunensis, with a wingspan of 9.8 to 11.5 feet, reveals unique neck bone features linking it to giant flying reptiles like Quetzalcoatlus.

But while pop culture and general scientific opinion have agreed for decades that the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores, there was no definitive proof found in the fossil record.