A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Seagrass fossils show ancient meadows moved toward the poles during warm periods, offering clues for today’s warming oceans.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time, which falls within the Cambrian period, contains a ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable regions for the study of hominin evolution in Africa. Since the 1960s, many large ...

Mississippi has yielded numerous significant fossil discoveries in recent years, including a saber-toothed cat jaw and a Columbian mammoth tusk. The state's diverse fossil record spans from dinosaurs ...