A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the ...

It is not every day you get to walk through an Ohio park knowing the ground beneath your feet was once part of an ancient sea ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a fossil site that’s shaking up everything we thought we knew about fossil preservation. McGraths Flat, a spot in New South Wales, holds some of the ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Whether you are a dinosaur enthusiast, a budding archaeologist, or geology buff, the prospect of unearthing prehistoric fossils is always going to be appealing. Luckily, the United States is home to ...

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Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Skip the museum—hike Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark and walk among real dinosaur fossils, from iconic tyrannosaur tracks to ...