Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks ...

Imagine an ear falling off a first century Roman statue and you’ll get an idea of what someone found at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Arizona. Photos of the fossil — yes, it’s assumed to ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in fossil form. And it's now arrived at a museum in Denmark. The fossil was found at Stevns Klint, a cliff in eastern Denmark known for ...