Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan ...

How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...

They’re little time capsules, often holding stories so bizarre they make modern nature look boring. Some fossils reveal just how weirdly life used to work, while others pop up in the most unexpected ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than belonging to a miniature species, they are actually baby ankylosaurs—some less ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...

The fossils collected in the northern Panama Canal area belonged to small-sized cetacean specimens from the Late Miocene and were new for the region. Credit: Jaime Bran The fossils collected in the ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix’s new docuseries The Dinosaurs, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, is sparking renewed ...