Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

The inclusions are so faint in the unpolished amber that Goethe, despite his interest in observing nature, likely never realized he had insects preserved inside what amount to biological time capsules ...

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

In today’s video, I’m showcasing some of my favorite finds so far—fossils, crystals, bottles, and artifacts all in one ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one ...

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

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

The proposed project is expected to tell the story of LA’s Ice Age past, when mammoths and dire wolves roamed the landscape.

Even some 200 years after his death, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's scientific curiosity continues to yield new insights. This has now been demonstrated by biologists at Friedrich Schiller University ...

NANJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: ...

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 ...