More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Who could have imagined that iron-rich rocks, commonly associated with rust, could preserve fossils with such remarkable ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Scientists believe the bones belong to the large, long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus from the Late Jurassic period, which are ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Routine parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first ...