Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest dinosaurs is even more bizarre than first realised. New fossils found in ...

Istiorachis macarthurae, dated to about 125 million years ago, sat in a museum for years before being rediscovered.

NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues ...

The Grand Canyon is one of the most remarkable landforms in America, attracting millions of tourists each year. The geological marvel reveals the power of erosion over long periods of time. It is also ...

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

In the arid expanse of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists have unearthed a rare dinosaur fossil that challenges what we ...