The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

New fossil discoveries in China are changing what is known about bird evolution. Two bird fossils, dating back nearly 149 million years, were unearthed in Fujian Province. These fossils provide the ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque will open a new exhibit in a few weeks, showcasing 600 fossils from a time before dinosaurs. The display will highlight various ...

NEWPORT — Tucked into the foggy forests of the Oregon Coast lies a collection of ancient wonders. Dozens of dolphin skulls stare out from a shelf. A microwave-sized whale vertebra emerges from a ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. As the apex predator in the region, the snow leopard plays a crucial role in ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.