Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species, may have ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian ...

A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient creature related to the modern-day spider was recovered encased in fool’s gold in upstate New York. The new species is distantly related to arachnids like ...

Twenty years ago, a cave diver found thousands of fossils in a blue hole on Great Abaco Island. The fossils reveal the island's Ice Age history, with pristine specimens of now-extinct species.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

(LONDON) — The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory dinosaur, may ...