One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic ... Media ownership in Australia is one of the most concentrated in the world (Learn more). Since the trend ...

(CNN) — An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit dating back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark. Peter Bennicke noticed a “strange small cluster of lily pieces in a ...

The study of fossils offers an exciting glimpse into the Earth’s distant past and holds the key to understanding the intricate process of evolution. Although countless ... The late 20th-century find ...