A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early ...

Two species of marine molluscs dating back about 430 million years have been named Punk and Emo for their outlandish spiky appearance ...

Dinosaurs inhabited the Northern Hemisphere millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to the ...

This small, chicken-sized dinosaur lived around 230 million years ago. Interestingly, this pushes back the timeline for ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi is the largest known species of the Amphisbaenia group ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first such find in more than 11 years, the New York State Education Department said in a news ...

The store of fossil carbon in man-made buildings and products is rising, as our dependence on fossil ... [+] fuels continues to increase. New research has revealed that the amount of fossil ...

Paleontologists discovered "North America's oldest dinosaur," challenging the origin story of the dinosaurs that once roamed ...