The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

A young-Earth creationist argues that Earth is roughly 6,000 years old and challenges scientists to disprove his claim that virtually all fossils were produced during Noah’s flood about 4,500 years ...

A remarkably diverse fossil ecosystem in central Colombia that preserves an unusual overlap between survivors of older ...

In the 6th-grade unit 'Land Formation and Changes,' the focus is on inferring how land is formed based on strata, rocks, and fossils. Rather than treating stratum models, sand/mud/gravel, rock/fossil ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

In 1902, professional fossil hunter Barnum Brown excavated a stunning set of bones from eastern Montana’s Cretaceous period rocks. The remains were clearly from a large carnivore—far more imposing ...

A multinational research team comprising Chinese, French, and Dutch scholars has demonstrated that porcupine behavior constitutes a crucial factor in the formation and accumulation of cave fossils in ...

Paleontologists in Abu Dhabi have discovered a seven-million-year-old viverrid jaw that documents intercontinental carnivoran ...

A dinosaur skull overlooked for a century at London's Natural History Museum reveals Invictibellatrix, the first known ...

One of the most extraordinary fossil beds of Cretaceous creatures in the world formed about 125 million years ago, in what’s now northeastern China. Researchers have thought that the diverse members ...

Tooth marks on an Albertosaurus jaw favor a small raptor feeding on the much larger dinosaur’s carcass. The study offers the ...