A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

A newly identified fossil discovered in the ancient shale of South Africa, has stunned paleontologists with its rare ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History photo Hoffman believes waves from the storm helped scour some of the sand away from the shale. Excavating the fossil from the beach was a complicated ...

The Trump administration has announced it will use emergency authorities to rapidly increase the pace of approving fossil fuel and mining projects on public lands. The Interior Department ...

Drawing on comparative developmental biology, classical embryological studies, and data from the arthropod fossil record, the study identifies three ancestral developmental zones from which all ...

At more than 110 million years old, a fossil excavated in Brazil is the oldest undisputed ant fossil ever discovered. The finding adds to evidence that the first ants evolved on the supercontinent ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, paleontologists unearthed Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a novel therizinosaur species from 90-95 million years ago. This plant-eating dinosaur, related to meat-eaters ...

For several years, Otis Sullens pursued a career in mining, breathing in the dust and toxins that later contributed to his death. Yet the name of this Miller County native is remembered for his ...