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What does Glossopteris mean and why do researchers care about Glossopteris fossils? The extensive range of these fossilized leaves shed light on plate tectonics and continental drift theory.

Retreat of Patagonia's Tyndall Glacier continues to uncover a prehistoric graveyard of marine reptiles.

Paleontologists typically study for years to get their master's degree or Ph.D. in paleontology. This extensive academic background enables them to start a career searching for and studying ancient animal and plant fossils. It's exciting work that also explores the relationship between ancient living things and their modern-day relatives. So it's always big news when

A new species of ancient lungfish from the Triassic period has been identified from fossilized tooth plate material found in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe.

The Megalosaurus is essential to paleontology. Learn what discoveries made this dinosaur important.

Special assemblages of minuscule fossils bring dinosaur ecosystems to life

Parachute science and lingering colonialism in fossil studies have negatively impacted the discipline

Francesca Carington and Janelle Retka satirize the hobby of fossil collection.

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Paleontologists at the Indian Institute of Technology have described a surprising new genus and species of crocodile-like reptile from fossils found in India.

A new genus and species of pterosaur has been identified from the fossilized material found in the Kilmaluag Formation of the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

The unexpected discovery of "ghost" fossils belonging to ancient tiny organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth's oceans.

Finding jellyfish fossils is "extremely rare" as the creatures are made up of roughly 95% water.

Paleontologists from Uppsala University and the University of Oslo have found the 250-million-year-old fossilized ichthyosaur remains in the Vikinghøgda Formation on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen.

Paleontologists have unearthed four cervical vertebrae of Jurassic pliosaurid in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

All that glitters is not gold, or even fool's gold in the case of fossils.

Jellyfish, jellies, medusae, quallen, and agua mala—regardless of what you call them, they instill fear and wonder in humans. They are slimy, cold, wet, and jiggly, lacking a brain or a heart or an…

Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans—yet they are among the rarest of fossils because their squishy bodies lack easily fossilized hard parts. Now a team of paleontologists has discovered that countless sea anemone fossils have been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years.

Paleontologists have hypothesized for decades that a major animal group called Ecdysozoa must be older than the Cambrian period, but until now its origins have remained enigmatic.