While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

The same goes for anybody who went for a plesiosaur: they weren't dinosaurs, and neither were their flying pals. “You may ...

The Professor of History sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss 19th century forgeries, his new book, and why he considers himself a "non-traditional historian." ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Fairbanks Republican Rep. Will Stapp introduced a bill Tuesday asking the Legislature to designate the Nanuqsaurus as ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...