A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

Humans have always had an unusual interest in everything related to the presence of dinosaurs on Earth. This is why experts investigate everything related to them, their life for h ...

A story perpetuated in some social media circles and fringe websites claims that 600 million-year-old fossils belonging to tiny humanoids have been found in Antarctica. This is an internet hoax ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding ...

An illustration shows an elasmosaur swimming through rough waters. A fossil from Antarctica is now the heaviest known animal in this group of prehistoric marine reptiles. It took decades of ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

off the coast of Western Antarctica. They named it 'Vegavis iaai,' or "Vega bird" in Latin. The fossil's discoverers said it was a waterfowl, a broad order encompassing everything from geese to loons.

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai, and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project.

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...

Researchers at the museum continue to excavate and study fossils from the region, with students playing a key role in discoveries. The museum's Antarctic collection includes fossils of marine ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.