Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species, may have ...

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil found in Utah is giving scientists a rare look at one of the strangest branches of the animal family tree. Called Megasiphon thylakos, it shows how early tunicates lived ...

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way these fossils were preserved is far from what scientists ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in ...

A team of paleontologists has uncovered hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs dating back 76 million years in the Provence ...

A Swedish palaeontologist and her team are reconstructing southern Sweden as it appeared around 200 million years ago. Their ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...