After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

The whales have fared better than last winter, when they gave birth to only 11 calves, according to NOAA data. The whales ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

An unassuming rock layer in the Grand Canyon just exposed a fossil secret that changes everything we thought we knew.

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.