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

Researchers Find An ‘Alien Plant’ In The Utah Desert In 1969, paleontologists studying flora in the Green River Formation near the ghost town of Rainbow, Utah, discovered an unusual fossil ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the “dream” revelation of a new ...

Now a desert, a team of paletontologists were digging through 30 million-year old rock layers called the Fayum Depression for ...

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Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.