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 fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. Every year, National Fossil Day invites us to pause and think about the ...

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project. By Sopan Deb Have you ever searched for a pair of glasses, only to realize that they were on your head the ...