Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Saturday marked 25 years since the museum put the famed fossil on display. A visiting 4-year-old declared it's "my favorite ...

However, a pair of fossilized skull fragments recently found off the Javanese coast are helping experts recontextualize the ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old creature, Mosura fentoni, reveals that Cambrian arthropods ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

"The animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was ...

Right now you can get the beautiful Lego Botanicals Mini Orchid Building Set on sale for $23 at Amazon. This makes for a ...

A massive fossil skull has emerged from the cliffs of Dorset, sending ripples through the paleontological community. Found at ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...