Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

SCOTLAND (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - More fossils related to a 240-million-year-old "dragon" have been discovered that will help the National Museums Scotland (NMS) to understand the animal's shape. The ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...