Paleontology focuses on the many living things that once existed but disappeared, and the academic discipline generally hones in on species from at least 12,000 years ago. People who work in this ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.

The study “is really game changing,” Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology paleontologist Jeff Liston, who didn’t work on the paper, tells Science. “Elevating this stuff from the anecdotal and ...

When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest paleontological finds in American history. The animal, named Megalonyx by ...

They were there for paleontology work, to excavate and discover some more information about the Middle Jurassic period. That work has been expanded on this week, as a worker made an incredible ...

In paleontology and paleobiology, we ask questions about the evolution of life that range across all geological time and span from individual species to the whole of life. We study the evolution of ...

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological ...