Geologist Dr. Jason W. Ricketts spotted unusual bone fragments eroding from soft shale near Van Horn, Texas, at the Indio ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over millions of years. When most organisms die, their tissues are exposed to the ...

The fossil leech compared with a modern leech. Double arrows indicate the large caudal sucker used for attachment, single arrows indicate body annulations. A newly described fossil reveals that ...

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A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

And in 2007, the Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage bought the skull of a Mongolian Tyrannosaurus bataar for $270,000 (£140,000), ...

The fossil’s internal organs are almost perfectly preserved, providing researchers with rare insight into the early ancestors of today’s arthropods Arthropods include modern-day animals like crabs, ...

Off the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, two French divers descended to nearly 145 meters and found what few ever see: a living ...