A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

For over a century, a peculiar fossil has been a source of intrigue and debate among paleontologists. Its unusual ...

US fossil fuel giants produce most of their oil and gas domestically but pay billions more in taxes overseas than they do at ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 ...