Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

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.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the last emperor, Charles I, fled to Switzerland with royal jewels, including ...

A fossil on display at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies reveals how dinosaurs in the Tyrannosaurus genus may have subdued prey, and the specimen is the focus of a new collaborative ...

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 ...

The authors of the study examining the fossil of Haolong dongi at the Anhui Geological Museum in Hefei, China. © Thierry Hubin © Thierry Hubin Production of this ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the more exceptional they become,” said Lorenzo Marchetti, a paleontologist at ...

According to experts, the two whale skeletons found are "among the most complete in Europe". View on euronews ...

Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — jawless fish from 518 million years ago — had two pairs of eyes. The team has reconstructed one such ...

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