Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

Of the modern turtle’s many distinct features, nothing stands out more than its iconic shell. But paleontologists have discovered a 228 million-year-old fossilized turtle that is not only missing its ...

The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell. By Sabrina Imbler If anxious humans have nightmares of being naked in public, an anxious ...

Ostriches are the biggest birds on the planet today. Males can tower 9 feet tall, half of that their neck, and weigh in at more than 300 pounds. But there was once an even bigger bird, the elephant ...