Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the new study. Over time, two main ...