More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur.

Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

After a historically warm winter last year canceled several events, Michigan’s sturgeon season came back in full swing ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...