Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

An amateur fossil hunter just unearthed a new species of "sea dragon" dinosaur on a British beach. The sea dragon, or ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will ...

“Numerous unique fossils” have been found in the park, but this one apparently has experts stumped. Park officials didn’t say how the fossil came to their attention. Evidence of human ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...