The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Shutterstock The Mysterious Giants of the Kansas Plains Monument Rocks is one of the most interesting natural formations in ...

An amateur fossil hunter just unearthed a new species of "sea dragon" dinosaur on a British beach. The sea dragon, or ...

Buried for 145 million years, a massive fossil skull has emerged from the cliffs of Dorset, leaving scientists in awe. This ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

Feb. 12—"Walk Through Time" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete with the addition of the Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life. The permanent exhibition ...

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...