Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

In a famous fossil bed in Brazil, researchers have discovered a new treasure of ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

The boss of Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier has called on Ed Miliband to reopen the North Sea to strengthen the country’s energy supplies.

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

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

A new study has revealed that a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil featured both smooth and scaly skin. The specimen, which had been sitting in museum storage for decades, has helped scientists ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...

The newly found tektites in Brazil are named "geraisites," after the east coast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where they were found. The geraisites are between 1 gram and 86 grams in mass and have ...