When paleontologists uncover fossils, they do their best to understand how prehistoric animals looked and survived. But their first impressions aren’t always accurate. With broken bones, incomplete ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

2/17/85 As the huge Eastlake development project was underway, paleontologists dug up fossils before building began. Scientists called it the richest in California. Trump's ‘quiet, piggy' jab at a ...

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

A half-billion-year-old fossil was found with intact internal organs, including its brain. 3D models revealed detailed anatomy; the fossil represents an early arthropod ancestor. Discovery aids ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

Significant fossil discoveries in North Dakota include a T. rex and two mammoths. One mammoth found under a garage shows signs of a rare bone disease or malnutrition. The fossils will eventually be ...