For more than a decade, paleontologists have speculated about a single fossil that preserves skeletons of two of the world’s most famous dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Not only ...

Discovered in the Yehliu Geopark and Badouzi promontory of the island, the burrows are what are known as trace fossils—preserved imprints left behind by the activities of ancient animals.

This marks the first time fossils have been found beneath the ocean between the Indonesian islands. The discovery was led by Leiden archaeologist Harold Berghuis, who believes it sheds new light ...

The Pokémon Fossil Museum is traveling from Japan to North America for the first time next year The special exhibition compares prehistoric Pokémon to their real world counterparts It will open ...

“Definitely one for the summer bucket list.” While you’re below ground in the caves, you’ll get a “close-up” view of fossils that date back 450 million years and have a chance to toss a coin into the ...

Few people expect digging for a road to lead to uncovering Ice Age megafauna. Before skyscrapers, cars or highways, Texas was a land of giants. A highway project in Lubbock uncovered colossal ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.

Delaney Drummond Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O ...

Rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx compare to Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops, while exploring how fossils are uncovered and studied in both the Pokémon universe and the real world.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the earliest-known footprints of a reptile-like creature called an amniote. The tracks are about 356 million years old, pushing back the origin of reptiles and ...

"Texas has a lot of rich sediments with fossils," said Dr. Aaron Pan, executive director of the Museum of Texas Tech. "It is common to find fossils during building or road constructions in Texas ...