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In 1969, scientists found the remains of a fossilized plant at Utah's Green River Formation and named it "Othniophyton ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere ...

Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs, suggesting that some flowering <a target=_blank href= ...

A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found in strata dating back 18 million years as work got under way for a road improvement project. Subsequent excavations unearthed other remains from what is ...

The scientists said they will work further on the matter. Three months after the mammal fossil was found, a separate fossil of a tooth from the lower right jaw of a tritylodontid was discovered in ...

which has previously yielded unique fossils of an ancient cassowary, a crocodile and possibly a giant snake. Bullock Creek's Elseya mudburra predates megafauna found at another Miocene-period fossil ...

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum held a behind-the-scenes event this week to give a peek into some of the research the public ...

Police in New Brunswick have cancelled an Amber Alert in connection to three children who were reported missing and possibly abducted on Sunday. Mounties issued an alert early Monday, saying they ...

Other experts argued that all birds living before the cataclysm were of the more primitive persuasion, like the ones whose fossils were found in China. Under that theory, a few ancient species ...