FULTON — For the past five summers, Westminster College students, professors, researchers and Fulton-area community members have traveled to a small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota to dig.

A new app, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could help scientists and the public identify dinosaur footprints made ...

Cambrian paleontology and geology represent a critical juncture in Earth’s history, marked by the rapid diversification of animal life and profound shifts in marine geochemistry. The early Cambrian ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University geology professor, has contributed his research to the creation of the ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. More than 13,000 years ago, when an ...

The Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long served as a natural archive of Early Cretaceous events, where the interplay between continental and marine influences is recorded in exquisitely ...

Robert Clark, Academic Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Professor at Marshall University, says Traskasaura sandrae is from the elasmosaur family of plesiosaurs. They are some of the longest plesiosaurs ...

Destructive sampling is a research method that involves intentionally altering or damaging a specimen to address specific scientific questions. Because this process is irreversible, the University of ...

The New York Times: Russell Engelman, a PhD student and research assistant in paleontology at the College of Arts and Sciences, described his research into a fossil fish called Dunkleosteus, noting ...

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s (UCM) Paleontology Section welcomes donations of fossils and related materials–such as associated data, images, field notes, and archival ...