A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change.

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

A breakthrough in nuclear imaging is unlocking coral fossils to reveal 600,000 years of reef and climate evolution.

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever found, located in the Khuren Dukh locality of the Eastern Gobi Basin in Mongolia. The skeleton belonged ...

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

Unique soil makes this New Jersey quarry a prehistoric fossil hotspot.

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...

When did these blockhead dinosaurs get their domes? A new fossil is “the specimen we have all been waiting for.” ...