The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

A forgotten continent may have formed a bridge between Asia and Europe around 40 million years ago. Fossil records show the land once hosted distinct species like marsupials and hippo-like mammals.

The peculiar Cambrian object known as Brooksella, studied for more than a century, may never have been a fossil at all. New research suggests it could simply be a very unusual rock formed by natural ...

A newly discovered species of Spinosaurus is shaking up our understanding of this iconic dinosaur that roamed what is now ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

(Maura McCarthy) This fossil is a pair of claws from Anomalocaris canadensis, the largest Cambrian predator reaching lengths up to three feet, and the first of its type to be discovered at the Stanley ...