BEIJING - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

But in the push for cleaner energy sources, coal, known as the dirtiest fossil fuel, has fallen out of favor. In 2013, at the urging of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Nevada lawmakers passed a bill requiring ...

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

BEIJING -- Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...