A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A brand new species of elasmosaur named Traskasaura sandrae has been identified from three specimens found on Vancouver ...

The elasmosaurids were a genus of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the United States.

S ome snakes are well-known for injecting prey with venom from their fangs. What’s less well known is that they produce toxic ...

Paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have published new research in the journal Vertebrate Zoology. The article describes a partial stegosaurian skull ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber ...