With a giant beak, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most. Paleontologists think it may have been killed ...

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 ...

Thanks to lots of fossil beds, lots of beaches, and eager beachcombers, the Cape Fear coast is a known hot spot for finding shark teeth.

A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

Step into the fascinating world of traditional knife making as we forge a beautiful Harpia knife featuring a feather Damascus steel blade and an exquisite hilt crafted from fossilized woolly mammoth ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.