Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Forget buying a Picasso, the one per cent want nostalgic artefacts like computers and bones – and auctioneers are struggling ...

Reports of looting led archaeologists to explore an easily overlooked cave in northern Mexico. Eventually, the team found ...

Excavations by University of Michigan’s Paleontologist Philip Gingerich in the 1980s revealed vital fossil records. Among hundreds of whale fossils, he discovered legs and knees during the ...

A collaborative research team from Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology and Geology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (IPMAS) has discovered the fossil of a previously ...

Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has long been a treasure trove for dinosaur fossil hunters. But every so often, it reveals a smaller, subtler wonder that shifts how we understand ancient life. A recent study ...

Fossil jaw of Ravjaa ishiii from Mongolia’s Bayanshiree Formation. Credit: Tsukasa Okoshi et al. A scientific team discovered a previously unknown species of tiny mammal in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia ...

A newly discovered fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert reveals a previously unknown genus and species of Cretaceous mammal. Named Ravjaa ishiii, the tiny animal was identified from a partial ...

Comparing Ancient and Modern Beaver Species Fossil Lake. Image via Openverse. The desert beaver fossils provide valuable insights into beaver evolution and adaptation. While modern North American ...

Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the ...

The newly identified Jurassic period creature, a species named unearthed at a Gobi desert site called the Shishugou formation in Xinjiang , had a modest wingspan of 1.3 metres.