An 11-year-old fossil hunter helped scientists discover remains of a giant marine reptile that lived about 202 million years ago and may have been the largest sea reptile ever.

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed.

An 11-year-old girl's keen eye led to the discovery of a massive ichthyosaur jawbone fragment in Somerset, England. This find ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

In late autumn of 1988, Richard Hebda, then head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, stepped into the living room of a ...

An 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds discovered a massive fossilized jaw fragment on a beach in England, leading to the identification of a new species of giant ichthyosaur. This discovery, named ...

For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Scientists identified a fossil from New Mexico as belonging to a dinosaur that may have been an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.