Scientists uncover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that may represent Earth’s earliest GPS, revealing how ancient ...

More than 60 years ago, Bruce Runnegar was visiting Petrie’s Quarry in Brisbane with school friends when he discovered a ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

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

After consulting texts on bird anatomy, O’Connor realized what they were: oral papillae. “Imagine if the flesh on the roof of ...

Since the beginning of life on Earth, there's been parasites. Wherever there's life, there's other life looking for a free ride. Join Stephan Chin for a new episode of SciShow and take a look at six ...

The discovery takes us to Chicago, where a mysterious specimen arrived encased in rock at the Field Museum in 2022. It was ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

You might have an idea of what a fossil looks like – but these fossils are slightly different (and will change the way you ...