You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

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

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

Insects in 112-million-year-old amber from Ecuador reveal a prehistoric rainforest and new clues about South America’s ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Scientists discovered 200-year-old rock art in South Africa depicting a tusked creature, possibly linked to the ancient ...

The first dinosaur eggshell ever found from the Lance Formation in Niobrara County has paleontologists excited. They believe ...

Mcwane Science Center recently collected a new fossil that tells us more about the ancient climates of Alabama and how our history can better inform our future.

The fossil was identified as a “tridimensional partial rostrum” fragment, or the part of an upper jaw close to the tip, or end, of a prehistoric animal, according to a study published Sept. 23 in the ...

There's no denying that James Sanderson found connected bones in a layer of prehistoric soil more 50 million years old.

Squiggly markings like a punk rock hairdo led researchers to identify the remains as spongelike animals that may have lived around 560 million years ago.