Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

A new amphibious fossil discovered in western Portugal has confirmed its presence in the former Jurassic wetlands.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are lurking underground ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument.

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.