Somewhere in Southern Maryland, a beach is quietly handing out million-year-old shark teeth to anyone willing to take a short ...

What did dinosaurs eat? Teeth provide important clues to understanding the ecology of dinosaurs, which became extinct ...

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how ...

Researchers have recreated the eerie calls that echoed through the Jurassic grasslands, steppes and woodlands 165 million ...

Fourteen fossilized teeth revealed five extinct shark species from a time when much of northern Africa was submerged beneath ...

Experts said the tracks likely came from a large, plant-eating, two-legged dinosaur -possibly a Hadrosaur, also known as a duck-billed dinosaur.

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the ...

Little is known about the sounds of the natural environment that dinosaurs inhabited millions of years ago in Jurassic ...

Some fossil discoveries add another species to the prehistoric record. Others completely change the way scientists understand ...

Fossil wings from insects that lived about 165 million years ago have allowed scientists to reconstruct part of the Middle ...

Chemical clues preserved in tiny shells reveal that ocean acidification doomed a group of planktonic organisms that have ...

Scientists uncovered a rare shark graveyard in Egypt’s desert, including five extinct species that reveal a sea from the age ...