Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

Dinosaurs have been breaking the minds of paleontologists and curious minds worldwide for decades. What did they eat, did ...

The discovered bone is part of an Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that likely roamed North America in the late Cretaceous ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Patrick began fossil hunting as a teen; on one of their first dates, he and Annie went searching for dinosaur eggs. Once simmering, the debate over who gets to hunt for dinosaur fossils has become ...

A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

NEW DELHI – Fossils unearthed during the construction of a water pipeline in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have uncovered a bizarre dinosaur with a fearsome pair of curved claws. The newly identified ...

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...