Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...

Dinosaur bones are certainly rare and rawr, making the Natural History Museum 's annual Dino Fest a treat for devotees of the ...

A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate ...

Researchers have discovered an exceptionally preserved fossil site in Massachusetts that provides a rare glimpse into ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

The discovery of these jaws with blunt, mushroom-shaped teeth reveals how this Late Cretaceous predator specialized in crushing shells.

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

Globidens is amongst the rarest mosasaurs in North America, with only a handful of the mosasaur's fossils—mostly consisting ...

The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Jawbones of a rare mosasaur with rounded teeth were discovered in Texas, pointing to how much these large lizards evolved before their extinction.

The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine ...

Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds, from the smallest of wrens to the mightiest of moa. The ancestors of some species ...