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

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...