The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...
Claudia Steffensen was hiking in the Italian Alps last summer when she stepped on a rock that caught her eye. "It seemed more ...
A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...
Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...
Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...
The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...
BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...
At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...
Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.
The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...