Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

This is a fascinating story of the interaction of two very iconic animals in the past,” the study’s lead author told NBC News ...

Would you lick a 65-million-year old dinosaur poop? Granted, it’s not a question many people ask themselves - but for George ...

Found 763 feet below the museum’s parking lot, the fossil was one of the oldest in the city’s boundaries and was hidden right ...

A long-misidentified fossil, once thought to be a caterpillar, has revealed itself as a groundbreaking discovery in early ...

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

A research team led by the University of the Basque Country (EHU), together with Wuhan University and the Chinese Academy of ...

When a string of misidentifications ended, a fossil sat in a drawer at Harvard for a century until its significance was recently discovered.

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting what we know about ancient life. Discovered in Harvard’s museum drawers, ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...