When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms ...

We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has ...

Fossil evidence from the High Arctic reveals that palm trees and subtropical plants once thrived in the polar region. This ...

Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...

Japanese researchers say they are closing in on the mystery of Earth’s “missing” geomagnetic polarity reversals, identifying where they believe scientists should look for evidence of their unusual ...

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

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

In a significant moment for regional music’s expanding national footprint, Fossils 7, the latest release from Bengali rock pioneers Fossils, has climbed to the No. 1 position on the iTunes India Top ...

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 ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...