In a historic breakthrough from Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have made a discovery of two new species of sharks, giving insight into the prehistoric sea life of the world.

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

Hollywood has used artistic license to take some liberties with dinosaurs, but new research may expose what these prehistoric ...

Breugnathair elgolensis is the first of a new family of squamates called Parviraptoridae, described as “an enigmatic group with potential importance for snake origins, that was previously known from ...

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.

Expert Michael Root spoke with Popular Mechanics to explain how New Jersey’s sandy soils make the quarry the perfect hotspot ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...