At this fossil park in Mississippi, visitors will be able to dig for fossils from 84 million-year-old animals that once lived ...

In partnership with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, we invite you to join us for this Science Pub event: “Fifty ...

Oil seep hydrocarbons and oxygen-free mud protected not only bones but also delicate tissues such as skin and cartilage.

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek personification of the morning star—the planet Venus), a member of the group called ...

In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other fossil hunters responsible for its most important discoveries. By Mark A. Stein ...

Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas roamed southeastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch, filling a major ...

A recently surfaced and extremely complete dinosaur fossil dubbed Juliasaurus just marked its first public appearance in Colchester, the U.K. The 154-million-year-old theropod’s species, however, ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang. A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new ‘ancient’ experience is opening its doors in the capital city, designed to inspire the next generation. EdVenture Children’s Museum in Columbia celebrated the grand ...