The untold story behind Mike and Heather Trask's fossil discovery and 'the incredible importance of curiosity.' ...

One dinosaur fossil is often described as the most important ever discovered, yet its true significance remains debated. The specimen reshaped ideas about evolution, anatomy, and behavior, but it also ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

Great Britain has yielded some of the earliest and most important prehistoric fossils ever discovered. Yet many of these finds raise as many questions as they answer about ancient ecosystems and ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped into the living room of a man named ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...