A cyclone that battered New Zealand has uncovered the fossils of what appear to be enormous marine reptiles that lived 80 million years ago.  The prehistoric remains were discovered at…

The newly described mid-Cretaceous dinosaur Chucarosaurus diripienda was likely about 100 feet (30 meters) long. (Image credit: Sebastián Rozadilla) Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered the remains of a ginormous long-necked…

It was long thought that pyrite — a shiny mineral also known as fool’s gold — was the special ingredient that gave fossils embedded in Germany’s Posidonia Shale their golden…