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A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs ...

Ancient marine fossils found in Mount Everest’s summit rocks are fueling debate online, but geologists say they reveal the ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, ...

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ...

Fossil vertebrae from Otodus megalodon that scientists thought had been destroyed in 1989 have resurfaced in a Danish museum collection. The 11-million-year-old remains support estimates that the ...

Fossils found in Canada that date back 567 million years reveal that some of Earth's earliest animals were already moving ...

Deep inside flooded caves, animal bones can remain remarkably intact for decades or even centuries. Yet researchers have lacked a reliable way to determine how the remains of extinct megafauna and ...

DINO bone smugglers looking to cash in on the global fossil fad are driving an increasingly aggressive and shadowy market.

Scientists found deformed head shapes in fossilized humans show their infants were probably just as helpless as babies born ...