Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...

The fossils were discovered in the Western Mississippi Embayment, a basin extending from southern Illinois to northern ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

A sea predator that swam in the seas near Texas 85 million years ago has been discovered by scientists. A fossil of complete ...

The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water. You’re ...

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...