One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

Some animals seem out of place at first glance. Sometimes that can be chalked up to the limits of imagination, but other ...

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Thieves used explosives to break into a museum in the Netherlands and steal several Romanian prehistoric artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old gold helmet. They blasted open a door at the Drents ...

BUCHAREST - Romanian artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old gold helmet, were stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands early on Saturday, the museum said. The Geto-Dacian artefacts belonged ...

So far authorities have recovered only around a dozen of them. Sign up here. World leaders gathered on Tuesday for the second day and plenary session of the Paris summit on artificial intelligence ...