A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

And for the bitter cherry on top, the now bankrupt director Sam Fayad has also been revealed by the NSW Supreme Court to be the “Australian businessman” involved in the large-scale Hong Kong ICAC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall Parking Lot. Workers at Dinosaur National Monument ...

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Dinosaur National Monument continues to live up to its name and storied history with the discovery of new dinosaur fossils last September. This 'outdated' IBM technology just did something it hasn't ...

DINOSAUR, Colo. — Some recent parking lot construction work in Dinosaur National Monument has revealed previously uncovered dinosaur fossils, the National Park Service said in a media release. The new ...