Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

Volcanic eruption from 12 million years ago preserves a snapshot of extinct animal life. Rhinos that once roamed much of ...

The Miocene period dates from 23 to 5 million years ago. Even though fossils of whales are not rare in the Santa Barbara region, the fossil Driesbach discovered is unique because of how complete ...

After the storms from 2024 pummeled the Gaviota Coast, fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip ...

Speaking from Sydney to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, McCurry explains his new find which shows climate — and change: Can you describe your work? I am a palaeontologist — we study ancient animals ...

Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

"This fossil is singularly distinct from all its modern relatives ... the ancient Caribbean dirt ants ultimately vanished ...