Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

This specimen, given the nickname “Alna,” was unearthed in sandstone at a site called La Buitrera in northern Patagonia.

The first plesiosaur fossil found in Algeria provides new insights into ancient marine ecosystems and fills an important gap in the study of Cretaceous life.

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

A nearly complete skeleton of one of the smallest dinosaurs, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, was found in Argentina's Patagonia. This crow-sized dinosaur offers insight into the alvarezsaurs group and ...

Scientists say they have evidence of sea turtles trying to escape an earthquake on the rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...

A newly discovered sauropod dinosaur, Dasosaurus tocantinensis, sheds light on ancient migration routes that connected South ...

During the Cretaceous period, survival did not always belong to the biggest or strongest dinosaurs. In this episode, we ...

A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...