The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst. The ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Argentinian scientists have found fossilized bones of one of the world's oldest dinosaur species in the Andes Mountains, the ...

The ongoing global recovery of the green turtle is a powerful example of what coordinated global conservation over decades ...

One of the most complete sea monsters on record had been discovered along the UK’s Jurassic Coast, being perhaps the world’s ...

A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

A 95-million-year-old crocodyliform fossil, affectionately nicknamed Elton, was discovered in Montana by student Harrison Allen. Unlike most crocs, it lived on land and ate a varied diet. The find led ...

Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University, didn’t have to travel far on the day he made what may be the most important fossil discovery of his career. As he stepped ...