Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...

The dinosaur’s bones are currently being held at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. There are no current plans to put the dinosaur’s remains on display, but Ibiricu said he’ll speak ...

Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.

But carbon dating isn’t typically used when dating prehistoric fossils. Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., founder of the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, explained to Popular Mechanics why ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

Look closely at living and dead trees to find evidence of even smaller neighbors. A fine, uniform, granular sawdust pushed from tiny holes in bark can indicate beetle larvae feces, or “frass.” A large ...

States are ramping up efforts to get residents to switch from fossil-fuel-fired heating systems to all-electric heat pumps.