Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed thousands of creatures, creating fossilized mysteries that scientists are ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

A professor is taking his university to court after his lifelong work vanished into a landfill, allegedly because of them.

Travelers can dig up 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossils in New Jersey or mine for diamonds at an Arizona state park. See ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

An unusually well-preserved Australian fossil reveals details about the diet, behavior, and appearance of a ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...