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

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

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

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight.

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...