Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

A 151-million-year-old midge fossil from the Jurassic era revealed that freshwater insects might have first evolved in the ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new ...

A newly discovered ancient sawshark species in Chile has been named after Chainsaw Man’s Pochita, blending science and anime ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ground like leaves. The fragile reptiles, just born or newly weaned, swirled ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern Spain.

When you look at a fossil on display, you may envision the world 66 million years ago. You might feel the earth shake beneath ...