The discovery of 280-million-year-old reptile embryos in Brazil and Uruguay has provided paleontologists with the oldest ...

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The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville State ...

ANY RECREATIONAL DRUGS. A NEW EXHIBIT IS OPEN AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. IT IS CALLED ANCIENT LIFE AND SHOWCASES SOME OF NEW MEXICO’S OLDEST LIFE FORMS. I BEGAN ...

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land. By Asher Elbein Some 280 million years ...

Materials are from the Charles Walcott Collection, and include field notes, photographs, sketches and stratagraphic sections detailing Walcott's observations and work in geology and paleontology, ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Jan Zalasiewicz is emeritus professor of paleobiology at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. His interests include Early Paleozoic fossils ...