"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

Paleontologist Anthony Romilio looked at three rock slabs bearing footprints. Most of the footprints come from one slab, ...

Fossilization is a tricky business; some species preserve only a few bones, while others are discovered with a one-in-a-billion level of completeness. Most would count themselves lucky to find a ...

A jury in North Dakota on Wednesday ordered Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a closely watched ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Far-right lawmakers, ranchers, businesses and the state’s environmentalists argued rooftop solar saves people money and ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

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

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, ...

A trove of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school ...