A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

Officials in Hong Kong said Wednesday they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, ...

Paleontologists from the University of Colorado, Utah Division of State Parks, Dinosaur National Monument and two other ...

Study co-author James Rawson, a palaeontologist from the University of Bristol, told Popular Science the "amazing" fossils date back to the Triassic era. This was a period when animal groups like ...

A fossilized jaw bone has pushed the evolutionary timeline of mammals by a jaw-dropping 17 million years, say scientists. The animal classification that would eventually spawn the human race was ...

The discovery may push back the emergence of the reptiles that once ruled the Earth, and clarify how dinosaurs like the Triceratops and Stegosaurus emerged. By Asher Elbein A dog-size reptile ...

Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence ... 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum is hosting Rock ID Day Saturday, Oct. 5. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is a free rock, mineral and fossil identification event. Members of the ...

That's because many of the fossils of the creatures are headless ... according to new research published Wednesday in Science Advances. Called Arthropleura, they were arthropods — the group ...

The findings were published October 9 in the journal Science Advances. The odd tale of Arthropleura gained a new twist when the study team scanned the fossils, which are still trapped in stone.

Vice President Kamala Harris would not support an expansion of fossil fuel drilling despite her recent campaign boasts about domestic oil production under the Biden administration. "Just to be ...