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"This time period is understudied, which makes the discovery of this new shark species that much more significant," said T. Lynn Harrell Jr., a paleontologist and fossil collections curator at the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

An extremely rare 96-million-year-old fossil of a reef shark is to be offered at auction.

Two new-to-science shark species that lived more than 325 million years were discovered recently, the National Park Service announced on Thursday. 

The toilet brushlike specimen from a Canadian quarry hints at the evolutionary experiments that occurred during a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record.

The discovery, which was reported for the first time in the journal Current Biology, opens a window into the early Carboniferous Period, an interval in plant evolution that is not well documented

The tree’s canopy was 18 feet across, but its trunk was just half-a-foot thick.

The judge said that the conditions imposed on protesters were "so unclear that it is unlawful".

A small team of paleontologists at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC has discovered a new species of ancient feline based on study of a jawbone fossil

What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw.

Fossil, one of the few prominent Wear OS smartwatch makers, is over and done with the smartwatch business altogether. The company has officially bowed out to refocus on its traditional watch and jewelry products