When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate ...

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the ...

Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Researchers studied fossils of two juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus from Germany’s Solnhofen limestone. The delicate skeletons ...

Recent discoveries and events in science include a fossil of a baby pterosaur caught in ancient tropical storms, wild ...

New research shows iron carbonate preserved biomolecules in 300-million-year-old faeces, offering rare insights into ...

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...

Raleigh Parks and Recreation's 'All About Fossils' event educated attendees on fossil formation and significance in North Carolina.

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...