When fieldwork began at 10 in the morning, Sharon Lord didn’t expect much as she knelt in the sandy clay and settled in for ...

This was an unforgettable day in the Alabama sun. We found teeth from ancient sharks, other fossils, and a few surprises we ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist, but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...

The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

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

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

In a year that kleptocracy and attacks on independent media spiked, investigative reporters harnessed a mix of new databases ...

They’ve since unearthed nine or 10 bones, Boyd said, including vertebrae, part of the tail, a tooth and an ankle. Boyd said ...