For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Mummified fossils are also essentially unaltered. Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a freezer preserves food. In ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

This, so far, oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ... Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery of this rare fossil was a ...

Montana’s Beartooth Plateau in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Rocky Mountains has remained covered in frozen tundra for ... the layered preservation of fossils, pollen, and charcoal.

Scientists are planting "living fossil" trees in secret locations in a bid to bring back the lost species from the brink of extinction — an effort that could take centuries. Wollemi pines ...

If you didn't know that you can hunt, find, and keep fossils in Maryland, then there's a woman from Baltimore County that wants to educate you. For Felicia Ludwig, the founder of Maryland Fossil ...