South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Researchers at the newly discovered site reported finding more than one hundred vertebrate fossils per square meter, making it one of the densest fossil deposits known. The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania ...

The Carney government is making good on a promise to help tackle one of the most potent forms of climate pollution, as it ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

Modern-day Ohio is more than 600 kilometers from the ocean - yet it has thousands of ocean fossils dating back to the ...

Dinosaurs were cool long before we even knew what they were.

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might ...