A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

While the word "fossils" may have once once conjured images of elderly, nearsighted scientists toiling in silence in dank, ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest geological features on earth. And they also hold fossils that tell us about some of the very earliest life forms that we'll ever manage t ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

This fossil site near a surprising city gives researchers and amateurs alike a window into a prehistoric world that's 309 million years old.

This summer marks half a century since the Hagerman Fauna Site in southern Idaho was recognized as a National Natural ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

One point of interest on the trail is the extremely rare two-toed raptor tracks, located just north of the main track site. These tracks were discovered in 2016 by CU Denver geologist Martin Lockley ...

F rom around 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, Earth was home to terrestrial giants: mammoths, moa, and mega-marsupials, including ...

Understanding the molecular history of cancer could help scientists discover new treatments for the modern age.