Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel of ...

A group of fossil collectors have discovered a mass ice age fossil grave buried in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur. The ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve an extinction mystery.

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...