Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS ...

Baby sauropods were the fast food of the Late Jurassic, feeding multiple predators and propping up the entire ecosystem. Their vulnerability may even explain why later giants like T. rex evolved to ...

Here, things get interesting, as just recently it was announced that two remarkably intact dinosaurs had been discovered in Wyoming’s “mummy zone”. The region was subject to the perfect storm of flash ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to ...