A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early ...

Prehistoric human babies probably looked just like their parents from the moment they were born. Not only would this have ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Researchers say they have uncovered a case of mistaken identity and found evidence of a species called Nanotyrannus lancensis ...

Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over millions of years. When most organisms die, their tissues are exposed to the ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like mammal that is reported to be the largest marsupial found in the North ...

In Argentina’s Río Negro region, scientists discovered a 70-million-year-old, remarkably preserved carnivorous dinosaur egg ...

The fossil leech compared with a modern leech. Double arrows indicate the large caudal sucker used for attachment, single arrows indicate body annulations. A newly described fossil reveals that ...

Trueman, C. N., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Potts, Richard, and Tuross, Noreen C. 2006. "High-resolution records of location and stratigraphic provenance from the rare earth element composition of fossil ...