Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger ...

Among the finds are over 90 fossils, including teeth from a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, teeth from a relative of ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa.

These tusked, herbivorous creatures belong to a group of prehistoric reptiles that lived over 250 million years ago, long ...

Researchers say this 200-year-old South African cave painting likely depicts an animal that has been dead for over 200 ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

New research suggests the sarcophagus' occupant, previously known only as "the horseman," is Joachim du Bellay, a French ...

The rare bones of an ancient sea monster dating back 80 million years ago were recently unearthed in northeast Texas. In 2023, a private fossil hunter discovered the jaws belonging to Globidens ...