Jason Osborne is a technical black-water scuba diver who discovered a new genus and species. He found a parasitic marine ...

In a unique paleontological breakthrough, the Calvert Marine Museum has revealed the discovery of an ancient coprolite, or ...

While poop is decidedly not on the menu for us humans, it’s a normal food for many animals. In one study in Tanzania, scientists remarked that hooded vultures showed more interest in protein ...

This suggests it probably wasn’t feeding on the small shellfish, insects and crustaceans also found as fossils in these rocks, but rather on micro-organisms and organic debris floating in the ...

Meet some of your famous family members. / Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (skull); filo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (background) Here are 10 ...

Arkansas discovery:Vast deposit of 'white gold' could be stunningly valuable The pyrite that fossilized the specimen, named Lomankus edgecombei, "preserves critical evidence of the evolution of ...

More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, published today in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research ...

An international team of archaeologists, led by Antonis Bartsiokas with Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece, has uncovered evidence that a tunic found in one of the Royal Tombs at Vergina ...

July 24, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with iron. The study gives new insight into how Komodo dragons keep their teeth razor-sharp ...