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When William Buckland from the University of Oxford grabbed his trusty collecting bag and headed for the Gower peninsula in south Wales in January 1823, he ended up discovering more than he had bargained for.

If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you are imagining is not a dinosaur, it’s from a group of flying reptiles called the pterosaurs.

The Diplodocus became partly submerged after the river burst its banks

No outstanding cases of missing persons at UC Berkeley

The creature's massive skull resembled other theropods that consumed meat almost exactly, including T-Rex

It was discovered in the Baltic forests of northern Europe

Measuring nearly 3cm wide, the flower was found in the Baltic forests of northern Europe.

Scientists have found the remains of four species of dinosaurs, including a megaraptor, in an inhospitable valley in Chilean Patagonia that has emerged over the past decade as an important fossil deposit, researchers said Wednesday. The fossils were found in Cerro Guido, in southern Chile's Las Chinas valley near the…

Artifacts are being jostled or buried — or emerging as extreme drought causes water levels in rivers and lakes to fall due to extreme drought.