In a remarkable discovery, three school kids uncovered a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil while hiking in North Dakota, sparking significant interest in the paleontological community. This ...

When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a highly unusual detail: its internal organs are preserved. The findings were published in Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation. Dating back about 125 million years to the Early Cretaceous period, this ...

The discovery of a rare fossil goose in an ancient Central Otago lake shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa New Zealand ...

Nature had already reclaimed the fossil site once, burying it beneath layers of sand. If the crew failed this time, they ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired a nearly complete Pachycephalosaurus skull, a dinosaur known for its domed head that lived about 67 million ...