Scientists have proven Nanotyrannus was its own species, reshaping what we know about the predators that lived alongside T.

A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, ...

A team of international researchers led by the University of Vienna have investigated the development of shark and ray ...

Our interest group is engaged in a range of interesting research programs in petroleum geology, reservoir geology and geophysics, sedimentology and diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...

Colonialism's legacy still casts a shadow over the way paleontologists conduct their research and learn about the world. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern. Paleontologists ...

Last month, The Master’s University’s paleontology program and fossil discovery were spotlighted in a press release sent out ...

Rowan Lockwood is extracting pearls of data from long-dead oysters. Lockwood, a professor in William & Mary’s Department of Geology, has strung those data pearls together to craft a set of suggestions ...

The sites of large construction projects are often rich sources of fossils, especially in California, where they're protected by law. In the fall of 2009, bulldozers digging in preparation for ...

In British India a generation ago, scientists unearthed two small fossils that consisted of no more than partial jawbones and a few teeth. For many years, they gathered dust—one in London’s British ...

Now that it is 2010 and the "Darwin Year" is over, we can expect the tide of evolution-themed documentaries and books to ebb. A notable exception, however (if I do say so myself), is my forthcoming ...

Fossils have taught us an enormous amount about the history of life on Earth, but there are always new things to find. Here is a highly subjective selection of the best discoveries of the year. The ...