When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June 1947, he was looking for a lost military aircraft that had crashed. But what he ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old creature, Mosura fentoni, reveals that Cambrian arthropods ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today - including ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

In 2011, the Cincinnati region recorded 13.52 inches of rain. The wettest since then was April 2014, which saw 6.66 inches of ...

Elliot told the BBC. Dr. Lydon explained to the media outlet that there are more fossils out there to be found than people may think. “In the U.K., most of our fossils are hidden under ...

It was believed that they all died out around 11 million years ago. However, paleontologists have now found fossil evidence that shows that these fearsome creatures also lived in the Caribbean ...

Until now, the most recent fossils of sebecids were found in Colombia and dated to about 10.5-12.5 million years ago. The Dominican Republic fossils date to about 5-7 million years ago.

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...

Multiple mosasaur species swam Earth’s prehistoric waters as recently as 66 million years ago, but the over seven-inch-wide fossil found on April 15 came from Mosasaurus hoffmanii—by far one ...