A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery, also offer valuable information and have the virtue of surviving much longer, as new research shows. Scientists have made significant progress in recent years ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...

In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows. When ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive as newly evolved ...

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...