fossils

WASHINGTON—Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3.5 feet (1.07 meters) tall—earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a ...

Researchers in Eastern Canada have discovered a unique tree fossil encased in stone with its branches and leaves ...

A perceptive diner has spotted dinosaur footprints in a restaurant in southwestern China, with an international research team ...

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

Fossils from some of the largest creatures ever to swim Earth's oceans—whale-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs—have been found ...

In the heart of Los Angeles, we discovered an area that was inhabited for thousands of years before ...

While scouring the glacial till that comprises England's eastern coastal cliffs, a pair of Yorkshire fossil hunters made ...

A team of paleontologists last fall completed the extraction of two dinosaur nests containing some 30 fossilized titanosaur ...

A vast trove of fossils unearthed in Argentina's southern Patagonia region is offering the oldest-known evidence that some ...

Fossils found on a rocky beach show there was double trouble on England's Isle of Wight about 127 ...

The remains of a huge new half-a-billion-year-old extinct animal have been unearthed in the Rocky Mountains. Scientists uncovered ...

BUENOS AIRES—Scientists have unearthed in Argentina's Patagonian wilderness fossils of what may be the oldest-known member of the ...

Giant carnivorous dinosaurs the length of a bus wandered southeast Queensland about 160 million years ago, new research ...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa.—The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a ...

Scientists have discovered a 13-foot-long reptile that swam through the seas about 170 million years ago in Scotland. ...

Researchers have found fossil fragments that indicate the so-called Siberian Unicorn last walked the Earth a mere 29,000 ...

Scientists found fossils believed to date back 140 to 160 million years after erosion left some uncovered in ...

Scientists have discovered a connection between ancient lacewing fossils and modern butterflies, leading them to dub the former ...

The fossil exhibit for the Titanosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever, opens at the American Museum of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fossils of the largest known rats in existence—ten times the size of modern rats.

A free app lets anyone with an iPhone or iPad discover and classify fossils with the eye of ...

Researchers have uncovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Alaska, according to a report published Tuesday

In the Milky Way galaxy, you have two kinds of stars: those that stay put and stars that ...

A 375-million-year-old fossil of a primitive fish that also sports features of the first four-limbed creatures is now ...

A 508-million-year-old arthropod is thought to share a common ancestor with spiders and scorpions.

We typically hear about or see common varieties of sharks, however there are more than 400 known species ...