Five hundred million years ago, tacos existed. But they weren’t corn or flour; they were the hard-shelled coverings on a now-extinct sea creature, Odaraia alata. According to new research, the …
Apex is the largest Stegosaurus fossil ever found. Matthew Sherman, courtesy Sotheby’s The largest and most complete fossil stegosaurus specimen ever unearthed was sold by Sotheby’s for $44.6 million yesterday …
Apex is the largest Stegosaurus fossil ever found. Photo: Matthew Sherman/Courtesy Sotheby’s The Stegosaurus, a spike-tailed herbivore species that roamed the earth during the Late Jurassic period, is perhaps the …
The National Museum of Brazil hopes to reopen by 2026. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images Burkhard Pohl, the Swiss-German owner of one of the world’s biggest collections of private fossils, …
Walking your dog is a pretty mundane task. One that many of us partake in several times throughout the day. For Damien Boschetto, a paleontology enthusiast, though, it turned out …
Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife Tran (R) stand with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd L) and his fiancee Jodie Haydon (L) during an official welcoming …
A famous fossil unearthed almost 100 years ago has turned out to be a fake. The fossil forgery is one of astronomical disappointment. Discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931, …
Two new-to-science shark species that lived more than 325 million years were discovered recently, the National Park Service announced on Thursday. The discovery was made through the Paleontological Resources Inventory at Mammoth …
This historic find was dino-mite. Scientists have discovered a trove of rare dinosaur bones dating back 115 million years at Maryland’s aptly named Dinosaur Park, marking the first dinosaur “bone …