Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...

Read about the beastly relics that are achieving headline-grabbing sales results, even as the trade remains controversial.

Paleontologists in Germany have described a never-before-seen species of Jurassic marine reptile from 183 million years ago.

European scientists, while studying the fossils of a marine lizard found back in 1978 in the city of Holzmaden in southern Germany, discovered that it belongs to a new, previously unexplored species ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile from Germany's world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil ...

Named Plesionectes longicollum, which translates to “long-necked near-swimmer,” the animal is part of the plesiosauroids, a ...

Palaeontologists have named the species Plesionectes longicollum. It means “long-necked near-swimmer” in Latin.

Imagine strolling through the landscapes of ancient civilizations, where the boundaries between the natural and the supernatural blur, and dragons roam freely in the collective imagination. These ...

A Kent farm is celebrating all things prehistoric with 12 days of roaming dinosaurs, fossil hunting and live entertainment.

A fossil shelved for 47 years has turned out to be a new species of Jurassic sea creature, revealing just how much prehistoric mystery still lurks in museum collections.