Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe ...

A newly discovered fossilized giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales is captivating both scientists and the public. This ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

This ancient lake hasn't had any water in it for at least a few millennia, but it's still full of incredible aquatic life ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...

The 113-million-year-old fossil was unearthed in the Crato Formation in northeast Brazil. The area is already renowned for ...

Skull of Buettnererpeton bakeri discovered in Wyoming. Credit: Dave Lovelace, CC-BY 4.0 Researchers have studied an exceptional fossil site at Nobby Knob in Wyoming. They found dozens of giant ...

The newly identified specimen was part of a collection of insect fossils from a fossil-rich stone quarry known as the Crato Formation, and housed at the University of São Paulo’s Zoology Museum.

In Big Bend National Park in Texas, geology students uncovered a rare fossil belonging to one of North America's largest dinosaurs. This discovery revives the study of a little-known giant from the ...

Fossils accumulated in the caves because they acted like giant pitfall traps and also lairs of predators such as thylacines, Tasmanian devils, marsupial lions, owls, raptors and the now-endangered ...

The Haidomyrmecinae fossil was found in Brazil’s Crato Formation. CREDIT: Anderson Lepeco. According to the team, the existence of a hell ant in Brazil shows that the insects were already widely ...

The fossil is a member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily from the Cretaceous period. Those insects were armed with scythe-like jaws that researchers suspect the ant deployed to pin down or ...