Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The research is published in the journal iScience. Dr. Daniel Falk, together ...