In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth. Sonja Wood, the museum’s owner, and Chris Mansky, the museum’s curator, found ...

Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise ...

A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

A prehistoric digestive time capsule has been unearthed in Australia: plant fossils found inside a sauropod dinosaur offer ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often disappointed. Unlike the statuesque bones of dinosaurs or even the small ...

In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. Its expected to rise even further by 2100, as human-induced climate change intensifies.

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, "virtual unfolding," and paleography, i.e ...

A new study has used AI to decipher the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls, potentially rewriting what we know about when some of the world's most precious biblical texts were created.

The problem in this case, however, is that the Dead Sea Scrolls were written slap bang in the middle of a centuries-long period for which we have absolutely no dated documents.