The Ohio Statehouse celebrated National Fossil Day with a free fossil tour. The stones used to build the Statehouse reveal a rich history of prehistoric marine life.

Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

CNN — Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

The myths about oil are partially attributed to L. Fletcher Prouty, who appeared in the video, explaining in a 1994 interview ...