In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

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

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how gigantic animals during the Miocene were replaced by ...

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

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 ...