A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with ...

Paleontologists named the worm Kraytdraco spectatus, for its resemblance to a Star Wars monster. They say it sheds light on ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

Recently unearthed fossils from the Cambrian period shed light on a key stage of evolution, when life became much more ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...