Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

A newly identified dinosaur fossil from Brazil is offering fresh clues about how ancient animals once moved across continents ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

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

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. Subscribe to our ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...