A rare 3D snake fossil from Brazil reveals specialized features for burrowing, offering new evidence of how diverse snakes ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

In August 1990, fossil collector Sue Hendrickson stumbled upon the world's most complete T. rex fossil. The specimen was ...

By Will Dunham July 23 (Reuters) - Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their ...

Paleontologists removed roughly 3,000 pounds of rocks and fossils from the site between mid-September and mid-October 2025. NPS / ReBecca Hunt-Foster Construction work at Dinosaur National Monument ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

Scientists used tooth proteins to investigate Homo naledi fossils and found a surprising absence of male markers in a South ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. In Colombia, a fossil-collecting ...

The Abilene Public Library will host a free presentation on Texas fossils and gemstones later this month, giving residents a ...

Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a ...

Mosasaur fossils excavated in Osaka in the 1990s and stored for 30 years include a bone which may represent a new species entirely.