A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils and other ancient artifacts ...

SAN DIEGO — There is history all around us, including below our feet. The paleontologists at the San Diego Natural History Museum have unearthed thousands of fossils detailing the rich environmental ...

It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – A late-night glance at his inbox almost caused Leif Tapanila to fall out of bed. Looking at the screen of his phone, the director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History and ...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History welcomed visitors on Sunday for its third annual National Fossil Day event since the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing children and adults to learn about paleontology ...

Colombian researcher María Camila Vallejo-Pareja with a frog from Wyoming seen in the field looking for microvertebrate fossils. Colombian researcher María Camila Vallejo-Pareja is using fossil frogs ...