Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities.

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age of skeletons” began hundreds of millions of years ago during the early Cambrian Period,

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting on a distant slope. It was not a rock. As he drew closer, he realized he was staring at a dome-shaped skull — the crown of a dinosaur nobody had ever seen.

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.

The cast of Patagotitan mayorum weighs 2½ tonnes and was transported in two shipping containers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea. Scientists recovered dozens of fist-size Cambrian rocks estimated between 502 million and 507 million years old, from the Colorado River in the ...

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Imagine digging up a fossil that completely rewrites what scientists thought they knew about prehistoric life. Some dinosaur discoveries have done exactly that, revealing feathers on creatures we assumed were scaly,