Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Paleontology enthusiasts have unearthed one of the world's richest and most diverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period (around 470 million years ago). Located in Montagne Noire, in the ...

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...

(CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where ...

ZEELAND — River Walkers didn't start with minerals, fossils and artifacts. At first, the business was screen-printing and artwork. But that was in 2020. When the pandemic hit, Jessica Walker-Rios and ...

Between 1927 and 1937, paleontologists excavated Homo erectus fossils from a site in China. Between 1927 and 1937, paleontologists excavated fossils from about 40 members of the species that today we ...

The heat wave that killed 125 people in Mexico earlier this month is a harbinger of a warming climate, a new report has found. In May, a heat dome baked North America from the southwestern U.S. and ...

Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered in the south of France by two amateur paleontologists. This new fossil site of worldwide importance ...