As we wind toward the year's end we often find ourselves thinking about the future, but sometimes it takes a rare nugget from ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a New York home, the first discovery of its kind in over 11 years ...

A New York homeowner, in Scotchtown, Orange County, was "thrilled" to find mastodon fossils in their backyard, which museum ...

Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...

A New York couple stumble upon an ancient mastodon fossil beneath their lawn.

In 2014, a University of Hong Kong student "rediscovered" a 147-million-year-old Jurassic fish among specimens in collections ...

A complete and well-preserved jaw that once belonged to an ancient mastodon has been unearthed from the yard of a home in New ...

In Scotchtown, about 70 miles northwest of New York City, one couple came upon an unusual and thrilling paleontological find ...

A complete mastodon jaw has been discovered in the back yard of a New York home, along with a few other bits and pieces of ...

These slender predators are known mostly from bones that are less than 270 million years old, but the recent fossil find is thought to be an unprecedented 280 million to 270 million years old.