Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

Marine fossils that are 8.7 million years old have been found under a high school in Los Angeles. These incredible finds ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

Researchers also found the remains of two rodent-like mammals in the gut of this dinosaur’s fossil, which represents the first direct evidence of dinosaur-mammal predation in this ancient ecosystem.

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The fossil she’s working on is that of a massive ancient amphibian that looks like a dinosaur called Eryops. Though its appearance would suggest it’s related to Spinosaurus or a Komodo Dragon ...

Ric Edelman, left, whose donation helped build the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, looks up at a re-creation of a baby hadrosaur in one of the exhibits.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times ...