Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the new study. Over time, two main ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit ...