A near-complete skeleton found on the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur—a type ...

Named Xiphodracon goldencapsis, the new species is an ichthyosaur -- an order of large extinct marine reptiles -- that lived ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

In historic discovery relayed by Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have come up with the first open announcement regarding the discovery of two new species of shark, presenting ...

In the Dalaoling Nature Reserve of central China, researchers discovered a new species of frog, the Mount Dalaoling horned toad. This medium-sized toad has large reddish-brown eyes and a rough skin ...

Breugnathair elgolensis is the first of a new family of squamates called Parviraptoridae, described as “an enigmatic group with potential importance for snake origins, that was previously known from ...

A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more ...

Adiel Klompmaker, curator of the paleontology collection for the UA museums, has named a prehistoric crab species in honor of Nick Saban.

A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of ...

The marine reptile would have been about three metres long and would have eaten fish and squid, scientists say ...

A near-complete skeleton collected from the UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type ...