Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognized pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that "of all ...

This advancement could help scientists understand how oceans responded to past warming and oxygen loss. Phys.org reported ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

This abundant polymer dates back millions of years.

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as ‘cosmic fossils’, potentially helping to explain the ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

Hundreds of rare fossils just out in the open must have been a dream come true for this paleontologist.