Wisconsin is home to 50 state parks and 18 National Natural Landmarks. We’ve also got a village known as the troll capital of the world! With so many unexpected adventures and places to discover, why ...

Scientists scanned a fossil of the Jurassic cephalopod Vampyronassa, pictured here, and found clues that it was an active hunter. A. Lethiers, CR2P-SU Finding and studying fossils of Earth’s ...

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 State ...

MAYVILLE — When he saw the ripples encased within them, Jay Anderson knew there was something unique about the pieces of rock dislodged from a boulder in his Steele County gravel pit. Months later, ...

A marine reptile with a distinctly swordfish-like snout and unusually strong ribs has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, more than 180 million years after it swam in ancient seas—and ...

Coleoid cephalopods, which include squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, represent a dynamic and diverse group whose palaeontological record provides critical insights into evolution and adaptation in ...

The high seas of the dinosaur era were teeming with a plethora of squids, a new study has found. Using a new technique for analyzing fossils locked away in chunks of rock, paleontologists in Japan and ...

The rare species of prehistoric predator was found in southern England. By Julia Jacobo October 10, 2025, 1:36 PM A new species of ancient "sword dragon" marine reptile has been discovered in a set of ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...

When rain pelted Ventura County earlier this year, 15-year-old Kaylee Tan went in search of fossils in the creek behind her Simi Valley home. She was hopeful. She had found turritella fossils, a type ...

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years. By Asher Elbein The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where ...