Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

This Internet myth about a prehistoric bovine is gaining traction in the 2020s, but the reality is more mundane than you ...

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because they create oxygen-poor conditions that slow decay, helping explain ...

A newly described species from the Burgess Shale had three eyes, clawed limbs, and a tail full of gills—plus internal organs ...

The fossil, Shishania aculeata, was originally thought to be an early mollusc, a group that includes snails and clams.

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

Paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old ...

A man from Cape Coral, Florida, has been gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park ... and exhibit behaviors similar to those of their ancient ancestors. This includes congregating during ...