For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a ...

A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out ...

A rare fossil has provided a snapshot of what was an exceptionally unlucky day for a prehistoric sea cow. The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea about ...

"The turtle shell, which is roughly 4 feet long and 3 feet across, represents a new genus and species of leatherback sea ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

At some point during the Middle Miocene, some cuddly sea cow was swimming along, minding its own business, when it had an epically bad day, evidence of which got preserved for eons. The poor thing ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the ...

When a farmer in Venezuela identified some unusual-looking rocks south of the city of Coro, he thought they were just that—strange stones. But when examined by paleontologists, his find revealed ...

Between 23 and 11.6 million years ago, an unlucky sea cow had a very bad day. It got munched on by not one, but two types of carnivores as it became dinner for both a shark and some kind of ancient ...

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