Around 11 million years ago, a variety of prehistoric animals lived in Texas. Among the creatures were alligators, antelopes, ...

Between 1939 and 1941, during the Great Depression, the WPA collaborated with the University of Texas Bureau of Economic ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

Interestingly enough, much of the collection housed at the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Jackson School Museum of Earth History are larger specimens, like tusks and skulls. This is ...

Texas independence campaigners are celebrating after 10 signatories to the Texas Nationalist Movement's (TNM) Texas First Pledge, which includes a vow to back a referendum on secession from the ...

This is the third six-year term the Midland Republican will serve on the commission. Craddick campaigned largely by pointing to the growth of the Texas fossil fuel industry during her tenure, and ...

A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever of a reptile, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of the ancient reptile dating back some 237 ...

What wasn’t normal on that spring day was a three-inch-long fecal fossil, what researchers call ... Osborne thought for a minute. Texas offered plentiful opportunities for a great observer.

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

Learn more › A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry from the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences has unveiled a stunning 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod—a group that ...