While hiking through the fossil-rich terrain of North Dakota, three children made a discovery that paleontologists are calling one of the rarest in recent memory — the skeleton of an adolescent ...

Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for ...

A new “ apex predator ” dinosaur species has been discovered based on its fossil, unearthed in Argentina with a crocodile bone stuck in its jaws. The species has been named Joaquinraptor casali, and ...

Long before paleontology, ancient civilizations stumbled upon massive bones buried in the earth. With no science to explain them, these fossils became the foundation for terrifying legends and ...

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a ...