Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and ...

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

Some fossils of long-extinct sea creatures display brilliant rainbow colors. Known as ammolite, these gems come from the fossilized shells of ammonites, squid-like marine animals that vanished with ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried under the school. Scientists believe the area was once fully underwater, ...

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At this fossil park in Mississippi, visitors will be able to dig for fossils from 84 million-year-old animals that once lived ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...