A 324-million-year-old fossil that spent decades collecting dust in the basement of a California museum has turned out to be ...

On October 27, at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, the United States, six bidders competed for 12 minutes over the ...

A bizarre, heavily armored amphibian roamed the oceans 237 million years ago, despite the fact that modern amphibians cannot survive entirely in saltwater. Discovered in China, the giant ...

Was it a sea-lamander? Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil evidence of sea-dwelling amphibians, potentially upending everything we know about the animal class. “It’s a sort of very ...

A stunning fossil owl from Germany that has its last meal preserved in its stomach helped researchers to narrow down the time ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Paleontologists regularly discover fossilized dinosaur bones, but they sometimes locate footprints and prehistoric shells. On ...

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 ...

A creek and trees now cover the land at Coon Creek Science Center, but millions of years ago, an ocean covered the area.

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis. This horned dinosaur, an earlier ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when ...

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