The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management-managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Seven iconic toys 90s kids grew upwith that were actually subtle (and not-so-subtle) propagandacreated to sell movies, TV ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests ammonites did not vanish immediately after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Fossils from Denmark indicate some survived for up to 200,000 ...

Fossils are the remains or traces left behind by life forms that existed long ago and are normally found in sedimentary rocks. They are usually very small, like micro shells or pollen, and sometimes ...

WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

Around 410 million years ago terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairies—land was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually ...

One of the most pressing challenges facing the Catholic Church in the United States today is the steady rise in young Catholics who abandon the faith before they reach adulthood. A new approach — one ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly described fossils of Edmontosaurus annectens—a duck-billed dinosaur that ...