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 ...

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

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 ...

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 near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

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.

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 ...

SEYCHELLES — Coastal planners take heed: Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming ...

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