For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

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WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

The U.S. allows the sale of fossils collected on private property. Growing up, Danny Case became interested in fossils through his father, an amateur paleontologist. Starting at age 10, he says he ...