A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Trilobites lived in all Earth’s oceans for hundreds of millions of years. They had tough exoskeletons, which made them more likely to fossilise. The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known as Cymatioa cooki, this tiny bivalve was thought to exist only in fossil ...

During the last Ice Age, the Bay Area was a vast river valley roamed by mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant sloths. Many of them are still down there in the ground in fossil form, only to be ...

(CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...