The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

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

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The fastest land animal in North America is the American pronghorn, and previously, researchers thought it evolved its speed because of pressure from the now-extinct American cheetah. But recently, ...

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...

One of the richest collections of early-human fossils ever found has been hauled out of an African cave, thanks to the efforts of a handpicked team of scientists slender enough to fit through ancient ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

When you think of prime locations for finding fossils of the ancient creatures that inhabited our planet thousands of years ago, notable places like Egypt and China may come to mind. But what about … ...

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...

Miniature replicas of 7.7-million-year-old giant animal fossils discovered in central Türkiye are being produced using ...