PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how gigantic animals during the Miocene were replaced by ...

In 2017, farmer Nigel McGraths stumbled on something remarkable: He was removing rocks from a field to make ready for tilling when he came across what appeared to be a leaf embedded in a rock. The ...

As one of the three major groups of gomphotheres, the Miocene Choerolophodontidae were long considered to have been distributed in Europe, Africa, and South Asia, with a few localities in East Asia, ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

It’s a show-down as old as time: grand behemouth of a marine mammal versus ancient monster of a shark. These shark–cetacean trophic interactions span eons, preserved as bite marks in our fossil record ...

CHICO — A remarkably rich trove of fossilized animal and plant remains is undergoing evaluation and identification by a crew of Chico State paleontologists. The site, whose specific location the ...

The fossils paint a picture of life in Australia's prehistoric rainforests, 15 million years ago. They also reveal major climate changes as Australia's rainforests turned into desert. Paleontologists ...