People often appreciate fossils for the insights they reveal about ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. At some ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

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

The Haţeg Basin in western Romania holds one of the greatest fossil assemblages from the Late Cretaceous period, and it ...