The Burke Museum in Seattle is showcasing the cleaning of a hadrosaur fossil, complete with googly eyes marking its eye placement ...

Fish fossils from the Antarctic have been revealing a key stage in early animal evolution. Scientists are scanning the fossil for clues about life before the land animals. They claim that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species. Then, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of what Prototaxites may have looked like 400 million years ago. - Matt Humpage Some 400 million years ago, ...

A new dinosaur with a dramatic sail along its back and tail has been identified from fossils found on the Isle of Wight in England—and it may have evolved its eye-catching look to impress potential ...

About 66 million years ago, a dinosaur—maybe a T. rex or a Nanotyrannus—ate a bird. The record of that meal, in the form of fossilized poop, has survived to today, preserving the best example of a ...

A fossilized Caribbean dirt ant, Basiceros enana, preserved in Dominican amber, reveals the species ancient range and overturns assumptions about its size evolution. Advanced imaging shows it already ...

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

A rock tumbled off a cliff in a Norwegian sheep field, split open, and revealed something that scientists say reshapes our ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of the most exciting ...

Fossils were first recorded in the region as far back as 1880. Since then it’s been estimated that about 120,000 fossils have been collected from the formation that dates back to the early Eocene ...