Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.

One of these, known as the Black Knight and also housed in the Perot Museum, has significant damage to its snout and jaw that ...

A newly identified crocodile species from Ethiopia lived in the same landscapes and at the same time as Lucy and her species ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

The study team said they were not the first to recognise the creature as a separate species.

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

The eagerly anticipated Pokémon Fossil Museum made its North America debut at Field Museum in Chicago on May 22.

The exhibition — a collaboration between the Field, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo and the Pokemon ...