A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara, Spinosaurus mirabilis, that likely hunted fish in shallow rivers.

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They ...

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" ...

Scientists say they have evidence of sea turtles trying to escape an earthquake on the rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...