The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil examples A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

A patch of farmland in New South Wales has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable fossil sites. Hidden beneath the soil, researchers have uncovered fossils from an ancient rainforest that ...

Fossils preserved within ancient rock may prove that photosynthesis started way earlier than we thought. If correctly dated to 1.75 billion years ago, the new find provides additional insight into ...

A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal ...

Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed “Apex” sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 million just last month. Supporters of these sales argue that they’re harmless, ...

“The art of tracking may well be the origin of science.” This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organisation devoted to environmental monitoring. The ...