Dating dinosaur eggs is difficult: available methods are limited and prone to errors because measurement proxies – such as volcanic rocks or crystals – may have changed between egg laying and dating ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

In Laos, archaeologists uncovered fossils suggesting that Homo sapiens left Africa 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The remains, dated to between 86,000 and 68,000 years old, challenge ...

CHARLESTON — A case involving missing rare fossils and a rising star in paleontology and his wife will disappear — much like the dinosaurs themselves. Prosecutors dismissed theft-related state charges ...

A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change. In collaboration with the Australian Nuclear Science and ...

A new prehistoric species found just outside Montgomery, Alabama, was named after famous college football coach Nick Saban. Screengrab from the University of Alabama’s Facebook post Six national ...

DENVER — One of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever unearthed is now being shown at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. On Friday, the museum announced its historic discovery of the fossil ...

The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species. From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our ...

A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...