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

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

Fossil seashells in New York’s streambeds aren’t just cool finds—they’re clues to a time when the entire region was buried under a prehistoric sea. These imprints helped scientists rewrite Earth’s ...

Learn how the Grand Canyon used to be home to an ancient evolutionary competition that has since left behind a plethora of ...

Chasing after Void Kong since their encounter in The Junction, DK and Pauline arrive in the Tempest Layer, a land of ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...

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

ImagesA fossil specimen misidentified since its discovery during the Civil War and correctly identified by a University of Michigan researcher reveals ...

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

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

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

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