A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals ...

Trilobites lived in all Earth’s oceans for hundreds of millions of years. They had tough exoskeletons, which made them more likely to fossilise. The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how ...

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known as Cymatioa cooki, this tiny bivalve was thought to exist only in fossil ...

A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than T. rex. The species, Nanotyrannus ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 years ...

During the last Ice Age, the Bay Area was a vast river valley roamed by mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant sloths. Many of them are still down there in the ground in fossil form, only to be ...

(CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...