Take a short drive to Madera County, and you could wind up in the past.Make that the Ice Age.“700 750,000 years ago,” says Brian Reams, Business Manager at Fo ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Scientists discovered a giant echidna fossil in Australia that shows these animals lived across a wider area during the Ice ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

Amateur fossil hunter uncovers rare chunk of world’s oldest sea crocodile - ‘Moments like this will remain with me forever,’ ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records—has turned out to be something else altogether. In what amounts to ...

(via SciShow) Every year, we dig up the most amazing fossil discoveries and explore what they reveal about the ancient past. Here are the winners from 2025!

The Tenontosaurus was a large ornithopod that walked on four legs and roamed during the Early Cretaceous period, around 110 to 120 million years ago. Believe it or not, the dinosaur wasn't officially ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researcher discovered a dinosaur fossil that may expand the known range of a species that roamed the Earth over 110 million years ago.

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Jason W. Ricketts, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, discovered fossils – identified as belonging to the ...