When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a highly unusual detail: its internal organs are preserved. The findings were published in Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

A newly described fossil species from China is offering a rare glimpse into life just after the largest extinction in Earth’s ...

A rare and incredible discovery in Beaufort, South Carolina—a massive Megalodon tooth has been found! This prehistoric shark ...

A 1-centimetre fossil from the Gobi Desert reveals a tiny mammal that lived with dinosaurs, but how did such a fragile ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

The first paleontological study of its kind is challenging what we thought we knew about the state’s natural history.

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On January 24, 54 precious fossils from the Hezheng Paleontological Fossil Museum in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, went on ...

A Rotadiscus grandis fossil (left) and an interpretive drawing (right). Credit: Li et al Exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have helped fill a gap in our understanding of ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired a nearly complete Pachycephalosaurus skull, a dinosaur known for its domed head that lived about 67 million ...

WASHINGTON — Editor's note: The attached video is about a fossil discovery made by cave divers in Feb. 2020. In a historic first, researchers have discovered a fossil of a dinosaur preserved while ...