A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the ...

Introduction : Milestones in the study of biominerals : a summary of the discontinuous and somewhat erratic path of research on their formation and properties -- The concept of microstructural ...

Groundbreaking research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery – fossils of the world’s oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of ...

The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

During a parking lot construction at Dinosaur National Monument, workers came across the fossils of an enormous dinosaur ...

An ancient cradle of evolution may have been discovered in the striped cliffs of the Grand Canyon. Paleontologists have found an exceptionally well-preserved trove of fossils in the greenish shales of ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled. Some even jumped to conclusions, suggesting the fossils were proof of the ...