Super-sized amoebas lumbering along the ocean floor at the bottom of the linkurl:Caribbean Sea;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/14827/ may shake up a long ...

Officials are offering a reward after rare fossils dating as far back as 251 million years ago were stolen from Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The trace reptile track fossils dating from the ...

We know them in death. We know how they died, some of what they ate, how they grew, where they may have roamed, and even if they suffered from disease or injury. Preserved bones can tell us a lot, but ...

(CNN) — About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak, once, ...

New Delhi: Scientists from Jodhpur have found trace fossils—which are not body-part fossils but ‘traces’ of living beings left behind years after their death—that suggest prehistoric marine worms ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

University of Alberta graduate student Scott Melnyk made an intriguing fossil find during a graduate level course--and ended up identifying the fossilized tracks of a newly discovered wood-boring ...

Paleontologists unearthed fish teeth that are 14 million years older than any other teeth found from any species – and the discovery could rewrite our understanding of early evolution. Four studies ...

In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows. When ...

When you get to the Grand Canyon and gaze out at the incomprehensibly large sight in front of you, you might not even notice the life right beneath your feet. When you stand on the rim of the canyon, ...

An intriguing fossil find has revealed fossilized tracks of a newly discovered wood-boring organism in a new study. University of Alberta graduate student Scott Melnyk made an intriguing fossil find ...