It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

The extremely well-preserved ammonite - believed to be between 100 to 105 million years-old - has been discovered on the Isle ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

Paleontologists in India just identified a gargantuan prehistoric snake that roamed the Earth 47 million years ago. The ...

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Hundreds of vendors from dozens of countries converged in Tucson, Arizona, for the annual Gem and Mineral Show, where the ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.