Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient fossils was uncovered. There are millions of fossils that make up those excavated since ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes Peninsula's ancient geological past. Researchers ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. A mysterious animal painted on a cave ...

For decades, students at San Pedro High walked over millions of ancient fossils hidden beneath the concrete. During a recent construction project, workers discovered the massive collection ...

Study of Monkey Fossils Found in Cave Sheds Light on the Animals' Extinction Centuries Ago Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

Fossils can be found in surprising places and they can tell us about the past. We call all of the fossils we have found the fossil record. This record shows us how living things have changed from ...

Workers install photovoltaic panels at the Ningxia Tengger Desert New Energy Base in Zhongwei, in ... [+] China's northern Ningxia region. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) The world added 473 ...

Fossil fuels account for more than 80 percent of all primary energy consumed worldwide. Although shares have fallen since the more widespread adoption of variable renewable energy, today’s world ...

A team of Australian researchers has described a new species of now-extinct sawfly from an extremely well-preserved fossil found in central NSW. A new species of small, venomous reptile ...