The prehistoric creature had an unusually wide internal skeleton that set it apart from other ancient squid relatives, and researchers have found just two examples ...

The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first W. linsterorum fossil was discovered over 30 years ago, but remained in storage until recently. Most of Wyoming's ...

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...

Recently discovered microfossils date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans. A scientist from the University of Leicester has ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A 280 million-year ...

How do paleontologists know how dinosaurs behaved? Their only evidence of dinosaur behavior comes from fossils and inference from living animals. Image via Willgard Krause/ Pixabay. How do scientists ...

“The art of tracking may well be the origin of science.” This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organisation devoted to environmental monitoring. The ...

Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed “Apex” sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 million just last month. Supporters of these sales argue that they’re harmless, ...