More than two decades after a skull was pulled from rock in northeastern Mexico, scientists have finally put a name to the creature it belonged to — and it turns out to be a species entirely new to ...

The Pembina Gorge offers everything from 80-million-year-old mosasaur bones to the beauty of steep valley cliffs towering over small, isolated prairies and pockets of wetlands. Pembina Gorge in ...

MAYVILLE, N.D. — A once-in-a-lifetime discovery in rural North Dakota. The fossil remnants of an ancient sea monster. There are many remnants of the ancient past inside Mayville State University: ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

Aerial view of the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Alvarado, Veracruz state, Mexico on February 3, 2025. VICTORIA RAZO VICTORIA RAZO/AFP via Getty Images More than two decades after a skull was pulled ...