“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

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

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

This is one of the wildest fossil finds we’ve had: traces of an ancient forest, preserved long after the trees disappeared. Out here, the ground tells a story older than any town, any road, any map — ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

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

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

RED FLEET STATE PARK, Utah - A three-toed footprint appeared in the rock, slightly longer than my hiking boot. The outlines ...

Today we hit a Florida riverbank and it was absolutely loaded with fossils. Every few steps we were spotting ancient pieces weathering out of the sand like the past was just sitting there waiting. In ...

A BIZARRE ancient crocodile that zipped across land 215million years ago to grab victims for dinner has been uncovered in a ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to about 215 million years ago has been described from the U.K. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...