A pattern resembling snake scales caught six-year-old Leo Youngdahl’s eye during a fossil hunt in Nebraska.

Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in ...

It has been discovered that a butterfly fossil, which had been on display at the Omoshiro Insect Fossil Museum in Shinonsen ...

Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur, swam in a sea near present-day Peterborough, England. This ...

A fossil discovered on the Isle of Wight more than 100 years ago has finally been identified as a completely new species of ...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the cliffs of Lyme Regis in southern England were notorious for their dangerous landslides and bizarre fossils buried in them. To one local family, these ...

An archaeological find surprises in Monte Hermoso: two residents of Bahía Blanca accidentally discovered a prehistoric fossil ...

Today, Mazon Creek is home to one of the world’s finest fossil sites, with fossils preserving soft tissues and fine details ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests drought, not conflict with modern humans, may explain why Homo floresiensis vanished from Flores. (CREDIT: ...