Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

New dinosaur fossils were discovered at the Dinosaur National Monument, leading to the first excavation there in more than ...

Ranger David Ward, who was there when the find was made, said: "I said 'have you drawn [the markings] on the rock?' because ...

Fossils of two prehistoric marine molluscs with distinctive spiky “hairstyles” have been discovered and named Punk and Emo. Their strange appearance highlights the ancient diversity of molluscs – ...

Under McFetridge Drive in Chicago, two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides open a handmade wooden drawer. There are thousands of such drawers that ...

Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different ...