Scientists discovered a 13-foot python in Taiwan from a single fossil vertebra, revealing a lost apex predator.

A single vertebra unearthed near Tainan is rewriting what scientists know about prehistoric Taiwan.

The 315-acre park is Nevada’s newest, and is located on Decatur Blvd. on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

Carnivore fossils are extremely rare, though, in comparison to those of their prey. Prey are always more abundant than predators in a healthy ecosystem. So the probability of burial, storage and ...

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A fossilized skull found on the coast of Texas is expanding on the understanding of where the saber-toothed cat roamed tens of thousands of years ago, according to researchers at the ...

A skull from the saber-toothed cat Homotherium that is part of the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Vertebrate Paleontology Collections. Credit: University of Texas at Austin Important scientific finds ...

SPECIAL TO THE T&D Between 20 and 60 million years of geology are captured in this strata of limestone along the walls of the Giant Cement quarry near Harleyville. The largest cache of Ice Age fossils ...