It was the winter of 1929. A young assistant superintendent of the Geological Survey of India was deputed to undertake field ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

Discover Salkhan Fossil Park in Uttar Pradesh, home to 1.4 billion-year-old stromatolite fossils that showcase Earth’s ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

The dinosaur’s bones are being held at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. There are no plans to put the ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

The finding in Argentina reveals a new megaraptor species that would have ruled at the same time as North America’s T. rex, ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Proper gear is essential when embarking on a desert fossil hunt. Basic items include sturdy hiking boots, sun protection ...

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

The digital reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 skull, discovered in Hubei in 1990 and dated between 940,000 and 1.1 million years ago, constitutes an ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina that may have used its long arms and claws to capture prey.