Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black - Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest, most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils ...

Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was ...

A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian Alps in ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

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