A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

The fossilized remains of a very unlucky bird that lived about 120 million years ago reveal something that's rarely clear ...

Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...