Drive about 92 miles north of Dallas to Ladonia Fossil Park, where visitors will find a wooly mammoth, shark bones, and ancient ammonites from the Cretaceous Period (between 145 and 65 million ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

Miners Looking for Ammonite Stumble on Rare Complete Fossils of 'Ocean Predators' From 100 Million Years Ago Evidence of yesteryears is always lurking inside the earth's surface. Organizations and ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. Credit: Mark ...

But unlike today, it would have also shared the water with classic Cretaceous creatures,” O’Connor added, including marine reptiles such as long-necked plesiosaurs and strong-jawed mosasaurs as well ...

This newly discovered titanosaur species was found in what was once a shallow pond during the Cretaceous Period. CREDIT: Gabriel Diaz Yanten. The bones were uncovered near a salt flat in the ...

The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world. For the first time, scientists have an image of what ...