A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...

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Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

Miners Looking for Ammonite Stumble on Rare Complete Fossils of 'Ocean Predators' From 100 Million Years Ago Evidence of ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

The findings shed light on how organic molecules like collagen may survive for tens of millions of years within dinosaur ...

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and ...

Wang: A fossil’s age is always later than the species’ actual origin. To estimate evolutionary timelines, scientists construct phylogenetic trees — a “Tree of Life” that maps species’ relationships ...

A small but fascinating collection of Megalodon teeth exhibit deep bite marks from other Megalodons, raising questions about ...