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

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

Hollywood has used artistic license to take some liberties with dinosaurs, but new research may expose what these prehistoric ...

Key topicsThe trace is the world’s earliest known “butt-drag” fossil, preserved in South Africa.Researchers link the mark to ...

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

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

A new dinosaur species from Patagonia, Joaquinraptor casali, steps out of the shadows with a telltale clue clenched in its ...

A new, three-year Mass Save budget was aimed at delivering more services to low-income residents. It hasn't worked out that ...

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that appear to be different from any previously known species. According to ...