Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

Paleontologists have uncovered one of the “last giants” of the Late Cretaceous period: Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. This ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

The find adds to Big Bend NP's long-held reputation as a hotspot for dinosaur fossils. Previous discoveries at the park ...

The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily that only lived during the Cretaceous period. These ants had highly specialized, scythe-like ...

Efforts to “save species” with deep learning are not without controversy.

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

The bone was identified as "a large vertebra belonging to Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that lived in North America during the Cretaceous Period ... agency notes, "plant fossils suggest ...

The Cretaceous Period ended 66 million years ago, according to Britannica. Alamosaurus is believed to have first appeared in North America about 69 million years ago, according to a 2024 ...