We have a natural fascination with time - how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered it. For decorum’s sake, we had now ...

Join me as I dig into a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil site in Texas! 🦖 From uncovering turtle shells to a potential dinosaur skull, this adventure is filled with ancient treasures.

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared to launch from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on December 20, 2024. The U.S. aerospace company launched two batches of ...