In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Fossils from Denmark suggest ammonites survived the asteroid extinction far longer than believed, raising new questions about ...

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Discovered in a German museum but potentially smuggled from Brazil, this lizard fossil ignited fierce debates over scientific ethics, fossil trade, and the global ownership of natural history.

WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...