High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

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Fossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display - The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million ...

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Modern rock-wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel.

This marks the first fossil excavations near the Quarry Exhibit Hall since 1924.