The study of fossils, known as paleontology is about examining old remains of plants, animals, and other life forms found in ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Fifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in ...