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

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The French countryside is rich in fossilized eggs, footprints, and bones. A battle is raging over who is allowed to hunt for them.

the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant. She’d seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago ...