A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

A fossil mammal tooth smaller than a grain of rice does not announce itself loudly. It must be hard won from sediment and ...

Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have stirred controversy in the scientific community for decades, as fossilization was thought to destroy organic components, replacing them with minerals over ...

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way these fossils were preserved is far from what scientists ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

A team of paleontologists that analyzed a 54-million-year-old fossilized chunk of owl vomit have learned that owls, famous ...

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One ...