The trick to a successful search for fossils is finding the proper place. After all, paleontologists rarely select their sites at random. Instead, they consider an assortment of areas — comparing the ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep past that allow us to marvel at the history of life on Earth, of animals that walked or swam many millions of years ago, of the giant trees that became ...

Fossils are time machines that take us back all the way to the geological beginnings of Earth. Simply put, a fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past ...

Enter the fossil gallery of a natural history museum, and you're likely to encounter spectacular skeletons of some of the most manifestly awesome creatures ever to have walked our planet: dinosaurs.

Scientists have discovered the fossils of two new species of sturgeon fish in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota that were likely buried when the dinosaur-ending Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth.