Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

developed independently across various species much earlier than previously thought. Let's explore ten significant fossil finds that provide insights into early mammals.

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early ...

The prints were made by both long-necked sauropods and a predator, megalosaurus, and were found in one of the largest ...

Mastodon bones are rare discoveries, but Orange County, N.Y., has proved to be a national hotbed for these extraordinary ...

“If you didn’t see the fossils themselves, you wouldn’t think these things existed,” says Shannon Hackett, a bird curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. Despite this bounty of finds from ...

Torbay Council said the fossils of trees, known as lycopsids and believed to be about 377 million years old, were found by Dr ...

Killifish, or egg-laying toothcarps, are known for their ecological adaptability and species diversity. Two families of ...

Learn about the discovery of Tyrannosaur fossils in the southern coast of England, showing that the dinosaurs lived in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in eastern China. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline ...

These slender predators are known mostly from bones that are less than 270 million years old, but the recent fossil find is thought to be an unprecedented 280 million to 270 million years old.