Scientists have uncovered new evidence from one of Earth's most extreme ancient warming events, revealing how the climate may ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Fossil lovers get ready, there's a mammoth of a fossil coming soon to the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Well, maybe not a mammoth, but a close relative — a mastodon.

La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years ...

How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

Over geologic time, biocalcification – the process by which marine organisms make calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) – has reshaped climates, ocean life, and seawater chemistry. In particular, the evolution ...

A patch of farmland in New South Wales has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable fossil sites. Hidden beneath ...