A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live ...

The name Traskasaura honors the Trask family who found the original fossil, while sandrae is in memory of Sandra Lee O’Keefe, ...

“This is going to become a symbol, an icon, of African paleontology,” Ibrahim tells me. For more than two decades a cavalcade of frozen carcasses has passed through the CT scanners of Ohio’s ...

None of what follows will make sense absent a single social fact: The field of paleontology is mean. It has always been mean. It is, in the words of Uppsala University professor Per Ahlberg ...

Longtime dinosaur fans and curious kids are invited to the Paleontology Party at Orlando Science Center this weekend. The event includes hands-on activities, live shows and appearances by experts ...