A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and ...

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

Learn how a fossil from approximately 500 million years ago traces the evolutionary origins of spiders, scorpions, and other ...

Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs ...

A study of a fossilized pterosaur from China has confirmed that some of these prehistoric creatures had a surprisingly varied ...

In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of dinosaurs. These analyses of ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

Scientists have confirmed that fossilized footprints found in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old — meaning humans existed in North America much earlier than previously believed.

The toilet brushlike specimen from a Canadian quarry hints at the evolutionary experiments that occurred during a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record. A 352-million-year-old fossilized tree ...