Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

The coelacanth is often referred to as a “living fossil,” a term that evokes both its ancient lineage and remarkable survival ...

A network of nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back to the Middle Jurassic period, has been found at a quarry in Oxfordshire, marking the largest discovery of its kind in the United Kingdom ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

By Les Ferguson, Jr.,  Columnist Raising kids is hard. You might look at me and think, at his age, what does he know about ...

Dinosaurs were big reptiles that lived a long, long time ago. Some were huge and others were small. They lived on land and in the sea, but they are now extinct, which means they don’t live on ...