New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Diversity is central to one of the ...

Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...

Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit. Estimates for the arrival ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that ...

And if you don't believe us, just ask third-graders, their teachers and the chaperones who recently visited the Rockford Fossil and Prairie Park. Trust us, we learned a lot, including: - Over the last ...

What makes this discovery particularly intriguing is that the Darwin lamniform fossils predate all previously known Cardabiodontids by 15 million years. This suggests that the evolutionary ...

Any curious kids who have caught a butterfly by hand, only to find their fingers coated in messy powder, have unknowingly brushed off the fluttering insect’s scales. These microscopic plates cover ...

In 1940, a few years after the new highway was surveyed at the intersection of Brush Creek and Colorado Highway 82, the local paper reported, “County Road Men Find Fossils at Cozy Point. Henry Sievers ...