Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

The names Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic all describe the types of fossils that have been found relating to those periods.

the Triceratops Skull and Ammonite of the Mesozoic Era are shown against the green background, etc.). The numbered locations on the map represent museums and sites in Colorado that feature fossils.

A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and ...

"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 ...

Cycads and Bennettitales were at their most diverse during the Mesozoic Era. This fossil trunk of a Bennettitales shrub is more than 50 centimetres in length and is from the Early Cretaceous. It's 144 ...

We now know ammonites are extinct cephalopod molluscs related to squids and octopuses, which lived in the seas of the Mesozoic Era between about 201 and 66 million years ago. Their shells are ...

A landowner in Argentina discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric marine reptile, identified as an ichthyosaur, in the province of Neuquén.