A 444 million-year-old fossil was discovered in a gravel pit Steele County and is now at Mayville State University.

When he saw the ripples encased within them, Jay Anderson knew there was something unique about the pieces of rock dislodged ...

‘In a world where mammals dominate, octopuses remain an underappreciated contender. Their advanced cognition, tool-use, and ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

Gigantopithecus lower jaw (cast) from the Cenozoic of eastern Asia. Public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Long ...

The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville ...

The fossil is an extinct ancient sea monster, a cephalopod (Class: Cephalopoda) and apex predator of the Ordovician Period in the Paleozoic Era, from approximately 485 to 444 million years ago ...

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature ...

The haunting tale of the Dodo's extinction stands as one of history's most profound lessons in conservation. While we can pinpoint the last verified sighting to 1662, the story of how this remarkable ...

The index categorizes species by those that are of least concern, near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered and extinct. These classifications are based on the species ...