In 1971, researchers uncovered a massive rhino graveyard in northeastern Nebraska that contained the fossils of more than 100 individuals who died during this disaster. Today, the site is known as ...

Over one hundred rhino skeletons were found in the same spot ... Located about 160 km from Sioux City, Iowa, the Ashfall Fossil Beds were created by the Yellowstone volcanic eruption 11.9 million ...

A 13-year-old fossil enthusiast found a walrus skull in a boulder in northern California in 2011. Eleven years later, a paleontologist has named the formerly unknown extinct species after him.

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus ...

Notably, the skull includes a nearly complete palate—a structure rarely preserved in fossils of this age—indicating an intermediate morphology between troodontids1 and crownward Cretaceous birds.

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus ...