For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from ...

Limestone cliffs and cave systems hold clues to a prehistoric ocean.

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Meet the Sword Dragon of Dorset - a ichthyosaur fossil from the Pliensbachian Stage which holds clues to marine reptile ...

Two 10-million-year-old whale fossils have been discovered beneath a beach in Portugal, revealing an ancient lost sea.

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 along ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum.

The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.