While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

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

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

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

Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight.

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

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

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

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.