A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...

Was it a sea-lamander? Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil evidence of sea-dwelling amphibians, potentially ...

In 1985, he remembered handling a 324 million-year-old fossil. It arrived at the museum from west Texas. At the time, the ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home. The museum ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. In contrast, our ...

The only thing most of us know about fossils is probably from the second grade or from random TV shows over the years. In depth knowledge of all the different types of fossils has usually been ...

After a 12-minute bidding war among six contenders, a rare specimen named Jodi just narrowly missed the auction record for a ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. César Perdomo, a rancher and fossil ...

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis. This horned dinosaur, an earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species. Then, ...

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