Fossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display - The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million ...

Pioneering techniques used in this research may soon be applied to other dinosaur fossils and alter the course of ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that the fossils in the Birsti Badlands were 70 million years ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the functional diversity of past ecosystems ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilisation process was thought to destroy them. However, a groundbreaking study, led ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the Plains-wanderer, once lived across South Australia's South-East during ...

(NewsNation) — More Tyrannosaurus rex fossils are landing in the hands of wealthy private collectors through the luxury auction market, which is affecting how many of the treasured species are being ...