Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn wrote a bill inspired by a fifth grade class that would designate Indiana's official state mammal.

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

Have you ever had an activity described to you and immediately thought, “I’m going to be so good at this”?  Being 6’5” tall, ...

In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 14 years after the Center for ...

In the Peruvian desert, a 9-million-year-old fossil has been discovered, offering a rare glimpse into one of the largest ...

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

Many Kansans may not know it, but the state over the past 15 years has adopted symbols that include the state grass, fish, ...

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect ...

Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represented ... pterosaurs ate tiny shrimp and fish says Hone. For the colossal adult, ...

In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made ... shark closely related to the modern great white shark. As per Reuters, the fossilized remains were ...

Fossils of these mysterious stalks, dating to between 350 million and 420 million years ago, reveal “trunks up to 24 feet … high and as wide as 3 feet,” reported National Geographic’s Anne ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.