Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the last 500 million years, but this one particularly stands out. It wiped out ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Ischigualasto Provincial Park in Argentina, often known as the “Valley of the Moon,” is a spectacular desert landscape filled with massive red rock formations and ancient geological structures. The ...

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

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

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Scientists long believed stem tetrapods largely disappeared after a major ecological event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. That event caused widespread destruction of tropical forests ...

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