In the dense forest near Gréasque, a small commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of southern France, scientists have ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it's connected to early primate evolution.

People working in Arjan Mann’s laboratory with the Field Museum and the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois look for fossils at a Mazon Creek fossil bed, which used to be the location of a ...

Dinosaurs Scientists uncover new secrets of rare feathered fossil showing early bird evolution Study using UV light and CT scans shows the 150 million-year-old specimen had specialized flight feathers ...

The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province, southern China, a region world-renowned for its remarkably preserved snapshots of ...

The find adds to Big Bend NP's long-held reputation as a hotspot for dinosaur fossils. Previous discoveries at the park include the bones of a giant pterosaur, the largest known flying creature of ...

Fossil-fuel-induced climate change and pollution are also accelerating extinction risk. Up to one-third of animals and plants could be lost forever in the next 50 years if fossil fuels go unchecked.

This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of LifePrototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since ...

Life Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...