The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

The Isle of Skye used to be a social hotspot for dinosaurs - including T. Rex's ancestors - according to a new study.

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...

The counterpart appears not to have been recovered.” A lack of diagnostic features prevents the fossil’s referral to a known or new species but it can be confidently assigned to the pterosaur clade ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of obruchevodid petalodont (petal-toothed) shark from multiple teeth unearthed at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the United States. The ...

A squat lobster discovered near Easter Island, one of the many newly identified species by the Ocean Census Gallardo / The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census Scientists have identified 866 new ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...