The Ohio Statehouse celebrated National Fossil Day with a free fossil tour. The stones used to build the Statehouse reveal a ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

They are like fossils of an alien species, artifacts of a civilization that died mid-sentence amid some volcanic catastrophe.

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block ...

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily ...

The word “fossil” tends to evokes calcified bones or shells — the “hard” body parts of an animal that died long ago. That’s partially because it is very rare for soft tissue — literal flesh making up ...