The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Year after year, students have walked the halls of San Pedro High School in Los Angeles. What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

A partial remodel of San Pedro High School turned up something remarkable: one of the most stunning fossil beds archeologists have discovered, bosting once-underwater fossils from species dating back ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

A Tel Aviv University–led study of 160-million-year-old fossils shows that some feathered dinosaurs likely became flightless, challenging the idea that the evolution of flight followed a linear path ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...