A fossil enthusiast recently discovered a fossilized tooth dating back 270 million years from a petalodont (petal-toothed) ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

She said the Heleocola fossil — a piece of jawbone and three molar teeth — was discovered in the lab, in a slab of sandstone ...

A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

The fossil exposes remarkable features of the ancient sea dragon ... Inside the belly of this sea monster, scientists have ...

The fossil was found in 1980 in the area of the city of Linz ... Only the not quite complete skull of the dolphin has been ...

Just a 10-minute stroll from Abbey Wood station lies more than just a typical park to walk for dog walks or picnics. Lesnes ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...