The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

The Chipmunk Shark was believed to have swam along the ocean floor that is said to have covered much of central Kentucky ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Wind turbine blades will become fossils due to their durable materials. Scientists call these "technofossils." ...

A paleontologist describes how he unearthed a 100-million-year-old dinosaur footprint on a beach in England. The "massive" ...

In the shadow of the appropriately named Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, there is a race against time to uncover ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science.

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting a new dig in an area where dinosaur bones were previously found, 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 ...