The 26-year-old man accused of gunning down UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in Manhattan intends to fight his extradition to New York to face murder charges from Pennsylvania, where he was ...

Initially overlooked, this fossil represents the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever found! Let's discover how researchers have given this ancient creature the attention it deserves.

Researchers ‘Blown Away’ After Discovering Rare Fossil of a Duck-Billed Herbivorous Dinosaur With Basketball-Like Skin In ...

At a time when other paleontologists were convinced that the fossil record could best be explained by directed variation, Simpson disagreed. He said that fossil patterns needed no mystical or goal ...

A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first such find in more than 11 years, the New York State Education Department said in a news ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

The fossil hunter Mary Anning discovered the first complete fossil of an ichthyosaur in the cliffs near Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1810. Her discovery shook up the scientific world and provided ...

ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. – The first discovery of a mastodon fossil in New York state in 11 ... important find for the scientific community." A complete mastodon jaw was found in a home's backyard ...

Dinosaurs stimulate our imagination, exhibit curators and visitors at the American Museum of Natural History told USA TODAY one rainy afternoon.