Deep in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park, a rare discovery is rewriting what scientists know about dinosaur behavior. For over a century, this park has yielded thousands of fossilized bones. But in ...

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of a ancient shark species.

Long before humans walked the planet, a massive creature ruled the forests and open plains of ancient Eurasia.

Scientists call them “living fossils,” creatures whose bodies resemble ancient ancestors recorded in stone. They’ve endured ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...