Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many ...

In what might be the coolest solution to "how to find fossils", a new study has revealed how we can take to the skies when ...

Scientists found that specific lichen species act as natural indicators of exposed dinosaur fossils, creating signatures that ...

Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

On the way up to Michigan for my mothers wedding, we stopped in Georgia to hunt for Trilobite fossils! I made a mistake with ...

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

For many years, paleontologists have debated about whether there was a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, or if those smaller fossils were really just awkward teenage versions of the king of ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...