A remote fossil site has revealed the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, massive enough to dwarf a grown adult.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

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Scientists in China have discovered fossils of a new mammal-like reptile species in Gansu province – the first of its genus to be found in both South Africa and China. The finding suggests that Late ...

Before whales, great whites, or the bus-sized megalodon prowled the seas, a colossal shark was already ruling Cretaceous waters off what’s now northern Australia. New research on a handful of ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in New South Wales has forced scientists to rethink the origins of a group of freshwater insects. The fossil, a 151-million-year-old non-biting midge, is the oldest ever ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Credit: Louise Reily / Australian Museum An 82-year-old man ...

Two small upper jaws pulled from Morocco’s phosphate mines reveal a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that lived about 66 million years ago. The find is formally described in a peer-reviewed ...

A lifetime of amateur fossil hunting has led to the discovery of a new species of non-biting midge — a small type of fly — that lived roughly 151 million years ago. Robert Beattie, an 82-year-old ...