11-year-old Ruby Reynolds unearthed the largest-known marine reptile fossil on England’s coast, unveiling the 82-foot ...

Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...

Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors, Stirtonia victoriae, were eating leaves 13 million years ago, altering body size ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

BIP “Victor Angelescu’ continues its scientific and research cruise The Illex squid season in Argentina, taking into account catches of the three first seeks of 2026 can be considered, “encouraging”, ...

• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. These papers consist of Foerste's field, specimen, and miscellaneous notebooks; drafts ...