A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

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 ...

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought. The post Fossils ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.