Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ...

The unearthing of a 350 million-year-old tree fossil has opened the door to plants of the past. Five of these fossils were ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

Paleontologists are uncovering a bonebed containing more than 19 giant amphibian skeletons from the Popo Agie Formation near ...

The two species, named Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis and Huadanosaurus sinensis, both lived in China’s Jehol Biota – a region rich in well-preserved fossils of life forms that lived between 133 to 120 ...

More than 5,500 years ... million years ago. New research adds to a growing body of evidence that, in fact, dinos were doing just fine before the deadly strike. A team of researchers compared the ...