Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

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

In a surprising twist, agarbage dump in Spain, has turned into a hotspot for ancient fossils. The Can Mata landfill, which collects trash from the Barcelona area, is giving paleontologists an ...

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a lab at Winona State University in one of the rarest and largest fossil ...

Megalodon shark teeth, Neolithic arrow heads, mammoth bones and bird fossils are just some of the great discoveries made in Walton!

A routine fishing trip in Alabama led to the discovery of Ueloca colemanorum, a remarkably complete fossil of a previously unknown leatherback sea turtle species dating back 32 million years. This ...

Jason W. Ricketts, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, discovered fossils – identified as belonging to the ...