An unusual type of fossilized fish can be found within the limestone of present-day Germany. The Late Jurassic era conditions ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil bones of Tenontosaurus sp. -- an Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur from North ...

An 82-year-old man from Australia with a lifelong passion for fossils but no formal training in paleontology has helped ...

These Spitsbergen fossils suggest recovery came far faster. They show food chains rebuilt within three million years.

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Scientists uncovered Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, revealing the secret lives of ancient mekosuchine ...

Arctic fossils reveal the oldest known oceanic reptile ecosystem from the Age of Dinosaurs. Over 30,000 specimens show marine ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early ...

PhD student and Excellence in Science Public Engagement, Communication and Outreach Award recipient YuYen Pan didn’t initially choose Earth Sciences but she soon found that geology was a way of ...

Two Canadian paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft-bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is ...

Want to find fossils? Amazing finds, from mammoth teeth to dinosaur footprints, are made by ordinary people all the time and paleontologists say those discoveries are of huge importance to science.

This fossil skull, found in South Africa in 2008, represents a new species of hominid that researchers say shared traits of both ancient australopithecines and more recent Homo species. ((Brett ...