The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil examples A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

A strange set of ancient fossils is forcing scientists to rethink one of paleontology’s most stubborn assumptions: that ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

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A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in ...

“The art of tracking may well be the origin of science.” This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organisation devoted to environmental monitoring. The ...

Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...