First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

The Djadochta Formation in Mongolia is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur fossil sites. Its remarkably preserved remains suggest rapid burial events, yet the exact conditions are still debated.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

The fossilized skull of a pliosaur. Credit: Paleontological Research Center at Villa de Leyva Fossils of an extinct species of marine turtle (Desmarochelys padilla) from the Early Cretaceous in ...