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

A 62-year-old Beaufort man has pleaded guilty to illegally importing and purchasing the head of a protected sea turtle ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

Andrés Alfonso-Rojas has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago, and have remained giants ever since.

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...

Anacondas are among the largest snakes on Earth. But when did their development into these massive sizes actually begin? A new paleontological study now provides clarity—and for the first time, ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a ...

Where backcountry meets badlands at the basin of Hellfire Creek lies southwest Saskatchewan's Valley of 1,000 Devils.

The most famous petrified forest in the U.S. is out west in Arizona, but Mississippi has its own forest full of petrified ...

"Recycling doesn’t sustainably prevent plastic waste from ending up in the environment," argues Judith Enck.

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it ...