A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the U.K. more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

represented the first scientifically documented discovery of a dinosaur fossil in California. About a year later, Bennison ...

A newly discovered "hell ant" fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed ...

Or perhaps it missed again and moved on. This glimpse into prehistory is possible thanks to two tiny fossil footprints and the dogged work of an undergraduate intern at John Day Fossil Beds ...