In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast noticed something ...

A group of climbers discovered fossilized traces in Italy that suggest ancient sea turtles experienced a massive panic. These ...

Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Excavated from a hayfield near Warrensburg, Fossil Pond and its limestone evoke an age 300 million years ago when a vast sea covered much of the Midwest, including Kansas City. Gary Rhoades From a ...

April 25 (Reuters) - Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws that lived about 113 million years ago during the age of ...

A seven-year-old boy in Matlock, Derbyshire, uncovered ancient ocean fossils right in his own yard, once part of an ocean paradise. However, the fossils actually originated from Dorset. Three months ...

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JOPLIN, Mo. — Although you may be familiar with the abundance of wildlife the Show-Me State currently has to offer, you might not have to go far to explore Missouri’s prehistoric inhabitants. Let’s ...

About 150 million years ago powerful storm winds buffeted two young pterosaurs, snapping forelimb bones in their fragile wings and sending them hurtling to their deaths in the muddy depths of a lagoon ...