"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian Formation ... Dating back to the age of dinosaurs, the Yixian fossils remained untouched until the 1980s, when local villagers unearthed ...

Millions of years ago, apex predators in the Phorusrhacidae family lived up to their more common name—terror birds. The ...

Million-Year-Old Firefly-Like Fossil Trapped in Amber, Scientists Reveal It Is Unexpected New Species From Dinosaur Era A fossil from the late Mesozoic period was discovered in Myanmar, containing an ...

Scientists in Argentina have uncovered the world’s oldest tadpole fossil, dating back 161 million years to the Jurassic ...

A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...

In a recent study, paleontologists announced their discovery of an ancient mammal that lived around 70-75 million years ago ...

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

“Many people wanted to talk about dinosaurs,” said Jason Bourque, a fossil preparator at the Florida Museum who ... where ...

The duo from NIU STEAM return and, this time, they're putting on their paleontologist hats! They dig up the answer to a young ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, paleontologists have unearthed the smallest dinosaur egg ever found, revolutionizing our understanding of prehistoric life. This tiny fossil, discovered in China, has re ...

Current science news highlights include the facial reconstruction of a 400-year-old Polish 'vampire', China's latest crewed mission conducting experiments in space, and the discovery of the ...