Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

“These findings revise the view of the Cretaceous ocean as a world dominated only by large vertebrate predators,” study ...

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At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and ...

Dinosaur eggs filled with giant crystals are found in China, revealing new clues about prehistoric development.

At this fossil park in Mississippi, visitors will be able to dig for fossils from 84 million-year-old animals that once lived ...

A fossil site in Australia shows iron can preserve soft tissues, changing how scientists search for ancient ecosystems.