Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

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

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.

For the first time in over a century, Dinosaur National Monument staff have excavated fossils inside the park split between Colorado and Utah. Why it matters: It's a reminder that one of the West's ...

“For decades,” explained Worthy, “the extinction of New Zealand’s birds was viewed primarily through the lens of human ...

Routine parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...