Around 1,800 years ago, a fossilized spinal bone lay on the windswept beaches of Roman Britain until a curious passerby ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

Researchers have discovered the world's longest trail of fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Researchers say the remarkable fossil preserves embryos and larvae inside the animal's gills, offering a rare glimpse into reproduction during the age of dinosaurs ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument could provide new insight into how prehistoric animals lived in Oregon. The ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

Paleontologists have found the first known evidence of bees nesting inside animal bones, using empty tooth sockets in ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same — they record instants ...