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

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

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

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

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

Sensing the familiar jolt of adrenaline that surged anytime she came across a fossil, she called out to her husband, Patrick, who was digging nearby. Carefully, the two amateur paleontologists ...

In the last year, six fossilized great white shark teeth have washed up on Narragansett Town Beach. But where are they coming from?

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

The ancient fossil shows these elusive ants have a longer history connected to Earth's soil than previously thought.

The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

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