Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 ...

Thirty-five years on—well, 12 million, technically—Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park continues to offer important ...

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the ...

A Florida river had remained flooded for a long time, keeping many of its fossil-rich banks underwater. Once the level ...

Scientists had already believed the species topped out at 150 years old. Michigan and other researchers now say that may have ...

Something felt wrong about standing beside exposed ancient ocean sediment and finding almost nothing inside it. I openly ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni ...

SIOUX COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is located in Sioux County, Nebraska, just south of the town of Harrison, and it offers quite an experience for visitors. The park ...

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammals to diversify ...

The fossils were badly damaged during a museum move and then effectively disappeared from scientific study for decades. Their ...

State paleontologists guide participants through a Dickinson-area dig, where fossils of ancient mammals and other animals ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.