New archaeological research by the University of Sydney has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the ...

A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate ...

A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional ...

Researchers have discovered an exceptionally preserved fossil site in Massachusetts that provides a rare glimpse into ...

San Pedro High School discovered a deposit of marine fossils on campus in 2022 and began collaborating with local ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Fossils in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collection in its Department of Paleobiology. Before this study, a reliable temperature curve for the Phanerozoic did not yet ...