The Abilene Public Library will host a free presentation on Texas fossils and gemstones later this month, giving residents a look at the treasures hidden beneath the region's soil.

After flooding made their original fossil-hunting location inaccessible, Kyle and Natalie explored a random Florida dirt road and noticed fossil echinoids scattered throughout the limestone surface.

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these ...

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

Paleontologists removed roughly 3,000 pounds of rocks and fossils from the site between mid-September and mid-October 2025. NPS / ReBecca Hunt-Foster Construction work at Dinosaur National Monument ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Mosasaur fossils excavated in Osaka in the 1990s and stored for 30 years include a bone which may represent a new species entirely.

Two Danish coastal cliffs where paleontologists have uncovered 55-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric wildlife are likely ...

Scientists used tooth proteins to investigate Homo naledi fossils and found a surprising absence of male markers in a South ...

Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides and a film of ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...