An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to new research. The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs 113 ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science made a surprise discovery during a project on the museum's parking lot: a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil. The fossil was discovered in January as the ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed south of Starkville. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility’s parking lot in January, making the ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. Subscribe to our ...

Jim Pollard poses for a photo Feb. 5 at his Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth in front of a replica of a Lythronax, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It's the ...

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