The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

Geologists discovered a fossilised single vertebra of the giant sea lizard known as a mosasaur that lived during the late ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

The open sea separating the Caribbean islands and mainland South America would have posed a serious challenge for a terrestrial sebecid to swim across. In finding the fossils, the research team ...

Fishers dredged up Penghu 1, along with other animal fossils, from the seabed of Taiwan’s Penghu Channel—an area that was part of the Asian mainland during the lower sea levels of the ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first discovered the fossil in 2009, told Live Science, adding that she plans to ...

The first of the reptiles discovered at Big Bend dates back roughly 100 million years ago, when a large majority of the midwestern U.S. was covered by a sea. Among these are fossils from a ...

A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed while pregnant has revealed a huge surprise — there were two fetuses inside her fossilized remains. "Twins! She has another baby," Judith ...

a recent vertebrae fossil find belonged to “about as big” a mosasaur specimen as one could get. “This is a true, true sea monster,” Starnes recently told the local news outlet Hattiesburg ...