Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

The fossilized skull of a pliosaur. Credit: Paleontological Research Center at Villa de Leyva Fossils of an extinct species of marine turtle (Desmarochelys padilla) from the Early Cretaceous in ...

Work based on data from the Australian Astronomical Observatory has discounted one route for forming stars. The work is this week’s cover story in the journal Nature [7 October 2010]. In their paper ( ...

The Djadochta Formation in Mongolia is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur fossil sites. Its remarkably preserved remains suggest rapid burial events, yet the exact conditions are still debated.

Earth came into being roughly 4.5 billion years ago, and a new discovery in Canada indicates life developed not long after. Scientists studying ancient rock formations in Quebec have identified ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of two new species of sturgeon fish in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota that were likely buried when the dinosaur-ending Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth.

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and Hailey Rauch, collection assistant and master’s student, shows off the 2-foot ...