Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) in Jackson hosted the 23rd Annual Fossil Road Show on Saturday. “People ...

Deep-sea fossils have long fascinated scientists, offering glimpses into the ancient past and revealing the mysteries of prehistoric life. Recent discoveries of shark fossils in deep-sea environments, ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation. Dating back about 125 million years to the Early Cretaceous period, this ...