Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

Tune into programs about pioneering archaeologists, festive bat celebrations and more with the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Celebrate National Fossil Day among the hundreds of ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

Shutterstock Finding dinosaur bones is not something that is exactly common, but it isn’t unheard of either. Today, most old ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

If you want to know the reason Nevada’s State Fossil is the shonisaurus popularis, you should visit Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Here, you can take a trip to the remote wilderness that you can see ...

One afternoon in 2021, a postdoctoral researcher and undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder walked into the campus museum not knowing they were about to change the history of the chile ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...