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A perfect fossilized dinosaur footprint was discovered by a 4-year-old girl on a Welsh beach last week. Scientists say the print dates back to the Triassic period, and are calling ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a young tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops buried in Hells Creek, Montana. ...

Any adventurous little boy would be thrilled to find a real life dinosaur fossil. But when it’s your ...

This might be one of the breathtaking archeological discoveries made in the recent past: the almost 4,800-year-old fossil ...

Finding fossil footprints at the Grand Canyon isn't particularly unusual. The expansive stretch of red rock is home ...

To an untrained eye, it seems to be just any other rock lying on the beach at Christchurch. ...

The discovery of fossils from a previously unknown lagonomegopid spider species in South Korea, dating back more than ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—A massive fire tore through a 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro late Sunday, lighting up ...

The newly discovered fossil is 3.77 billion years old.

Researchers in Canada recently discovered a bizarre, roughly 30-armed prehistoric life form that may have been an early ...

Otters have been roaming the planet for quite some time, and researchers from China, France and the U.S. ...

An amber-encased specimen found in Myanmar has been identified as a baby dinosaur tail estimated to be 99-million ...

A new study documents the discovery of a nearly intact, 66 to 72-million-year-old skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur ...

Scientists have identified a pebble-like object found in Sussex more than 10 years ago as a piece of ...

A glimpse into the animal kingdom’s food chain 48 million years ago has been made possible by the ...

Researchers in Scotland have unveiled the skeleton of a 164-million-year-old fossil known as the Storr Lochs Monster which ...

Scientists have long wondered when life began on Earth. The oldest fossil evidence had previously been dated to ...

Paleontologists with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture have made a major discovery. ...

New research details the discovery of two fossilized bird wings estimated to be 99 million years old.

On May 20, a paleontologist in Irvine, California came upon something truly remarkable. The researcher was performing the ...

520-million-year-old fossils belonging to a shrimp-like crustacean are deemed extraordinary due to how much of the creature's central ...

A flower found in up to 30-million-year-old fossilized amber has been confirmed as a unique Asterid species, as ...

An international team of researchers claims to have confirmed the existence of a massive, flightless bird that lived ...

The fossil of an ancient cousin to the daddy longlegs was discovered by scientists in Burma. The 99-million-year-old arachnid ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fossils of the largest known rats in existence—ten times the size of modern rats.

The newly-discovered pig-nosed turtle is not like other turtles.

Researchers discovered evidence of both food and feces in a particularly well-preserved pterosaur fossil.