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Researchers in Eastern Canada have discovered a unique tree fossil encased in stone with its branches and leaves attached; an unusual finding when it comes to fossils. The discovery was ...

A praying mantis, encased in amber and frozen in time since Earth’s ancient Paleogene Period, sparked a flurry ...

A group of investors representing over $1.5 trillion in assets under management sent demand letters on Feb. 7 ...

From the backyard of a residence in the city of Pombal, Portugal, a team of paleontologists excavated the ...

A new window into human history has been opened up by a global team of scientists who have ...

Researchers from Flinders University and the South Australian Museum have finally corrected the record on a misclassification that ...

The University of Magallanes announced on May 10 the discovery of the complete fossil of a pregnant ichthyosaur ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson upped the interior design bar when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull appeared in the background ...

Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50 kg (110 lbs) once hunted across Northern England, ...

Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, ...

Gargantuan precursors of the white shark, megalodons once boasted enormous serrated teeth growing as long as six inches. ...

WASHINGTON—Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ...

It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale ...

A prehistoric fish called the coelacanth was once thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 ...

COURTENAY, B.C.—Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island’s Puntledge River on a cool, ...

A perfect fossilized dinosaur footprint was discovered by a 4-year-old girl on a Welsh beach last week. Scientists ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a young tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops buried in Hells Creek, Montana. ...

Any adventurous little boy would be thrilled to find a real life dinosaur fossil. But when it’s your ...

This might be one of the breathtaking archeological discoveries made in the recent past: the almost 4,800-year-old fossil ...

Finding fossil footprints at the Grand Canyon isn't particularly unusual. The expansive stretch of red rock is home ...

To an untrained eye, it seems to be just any other rock lying on the beach at Christchurch. ...

The discovery of fossils from a previously unknown lagonomegopid spider species in South Korea, dating back more than ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—A massive fire tore through a 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro late Sunday, lighting up ...

The newly discovered fossil is 3.77 billion years old.

Researchers in Canada recently discovered a bizarre, roughly 30-armed prehistoric life form that may have been an early ...

Otters have been roaming the planet for quite some time, and researchers from China, France and the U.S. ...

An amber-encased specimen found in Myanmar has been identified as a baby dinosaur tail estimated to be 99-million ...