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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

However, by taking a closer look at some ancient insects, a team has come up with a hypothetical Jurassic soundscape made up ...

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just ...

A new study brings the Jurassic forest back to life by recreating ancient insect sounds from 165-million-year-old fossil ...