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

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

A dinosaur was discovered beneath the parking lot at the monument’s most-visited attraction. It’s the first excavation in ...

A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed ...

Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

A crew performing construction work at the Dinosaur National Monument recently got an unexpected glimpse into prehistory – ...

Three boys wandering the North Dakota badlands discovered a T. rex fossil two years ago, and now a museum is working to reveal it. In July 2022, two young brothers, ages 7 and 10, were hiking through ...

The Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved the construction of a highway in Washington County. While many ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...