The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

The sale of a Triceratops fossil for $5.55 million is the latest in a list of dinosaur specimens fetching colossal fees in ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil examples A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

Arthropleura grew up to 10-1/2 feet (3.2 meters) long Head anatomy indicates Arthropleura ate plants French fossils date to 305 million years ago Oct 10 (Reuters) - During the Carboniferous Period, ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this Edmontosaurus annectens "mummy" unearthed in Wyoming, ...

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...