Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...

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

Conservationists and a Native American tribe are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an ...

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

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

Beecher’s Trilobite Bed is located just outside Rome, New York, and multiple species of fossilized trilobites, a prehistoric ...

Fossils of arthropods are rare, because soft tissue often decays before it can be preserved. But with this specimen, however, ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

S ome "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved ...