As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.
Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...
Fossil finds are exciting moments that sometimes introduce the world to an ancient mammal or dinosaur that existed millions ...
A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...
Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by ...
Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the mass extinction Shutterstock Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from 37 ...
The rediscovery of a giant megalodon fossil, long-lost since the 1980s, has led to new information about the giant shark's lifestyle, including that they reached up to 80ft in length. Researchers ...
A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what’s now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as microraptors. The location where the fossil ...
A complete skeleton of the oldest jack fish, found at Qreiya 3. Professor Hesham Sallam, Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Images of the T. rex fossil nicknamed "Gus" up for auction at Sotheby's in July 2026. The skeleton is about 63% complete by bone ...
NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) — Did you know you could see a Guinness World Record in the metro? The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has a Pentaceratops on display, and it’s the only place in the ...
Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time, which falls within the Cambrian period, contains a ...