The world's oldest fossil sea turtle known to date has been found by scientists. The fossilized reptile is at least 120 million years old -- which makes it about 25 million years older than the ...

and the Encyclopedia of Alabama explains the different regions throughout the state. In short, you've got to head south to find dinosaur bones. But in the Cahaba River, plant fossils are plentiful.

The group determined the fossil to be a nearly complete ... plant eaters with very long necks, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The massive herbivores are some of the largest known dinosaurs ...

Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism. Fossil footprints found in New Mexico's White Sands National Park in 2009 now prove that humans were walking ...

Australian National UniversityThe Dickinsonia fossil. A decades-long debate over a 558 million-year-old fossil has now been settled after scientists were able to identify it as one of the Earth ...

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From scattered bones and teeth, scientists studying fossils extrapolate entire long-dead creatures, and even relationships between different species. But every so often, researchers get a lucky ...

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The feathered dinosaur fossil’s 1995 export from Brazil may have violated the country’s laws, Brazilian scientists say. Its scientific publication could be halted as a result. The dinosaur ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

But things really got going in March. That's when scientists and volunteers rushed to excavate a fossil-rich quarry at the Dinosaur Discovery Site in St. George before it was scheduled to be ...