Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A newly examined Neanderthal skull, once thought to confirm cold-climate adaptations, has challenged a century-old assumption ...

Explore an ancient ocean’s hidden treasures as we uncover stunning crystals and botryoidal agate formations preserved inside ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

Witness the incredible find of a living fossil, an organism that has survived unchanged for millions of years.

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

All Liaoningosaurus specimens come from Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Many remarkable fossils from the Cretaceous Period, between 145 and 66 million years ago, have been unearthed in this ...

A major international study published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal, PeerJ, has formally identified a new species ...

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...