With a recent radioisotopic analysis of the fossil specimens dating the remains to around 230 million years old, this tiny ...

In 2014, a University of Hong Kong student "rediscovered" a 147-million-year-old Jurassic fish among specimens in collections ...

A "groundbreaking" fossil has been discovered in part of south Devon, council bosses say. Torbay Council said the fossils of trees, known as lycopsids and believed to be about 377 million years ...

NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

But there’s undeniably something special about cephalopods – the class of ocean-dwelling invertebrates that includes cuttlefish, squid and octopus. As researchers learn more about cehpalopods ...

RILEY BLACK: That’s right. So Apex is a fossil that’s currently privately owned. It has a really contentious history. It was purchased at auction for perhaps the highest price that’s ever been paid ...

However, new discoveries have turned this assumption on its head. Recent fossil specimens reveal that this ancient plant is even stranger than previously thought, challenging how scientists classify ...

The successful identification, along with the first-ever radiocarbon dating of these fossil plants in Southern California, expands our ability to track past environmental changes and highlights ...

At first, the resident thought they were baseballs. But after picking them up, it became clear they were something much rarer: giant fossil teeth. The homeowner—who, according to the Associated ...

It didn't take much to excavate these fossils. (New York State Museum) The man decided to call in professionals from the New York State Museum and SUNY (State University of New York) Orange to ...

Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives called gorgonopsians and our shared origins in the therapsid group.