Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Unique soil makes this New Jersey quarry a prehistoric fossil hotspot.

A New Jersey quarry has uncovered thousands of fossils from the extinction layer. Discover how the site is shaping what we know about the fifth mass extinction.

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...