The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil examples A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before ...

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...

Recently discovered microfossils date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans. A scientist from the University of Leicester has ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic reptile ...

Fossils preserved within ancient rock may prove that photosynthesis started way earlier than we thought. If correctly dated to 1.75 billion years ago, the new find provides additional insight into ...

A near-complete Triceratops fossil from the Late Cretaceous period, dubbed “Trey,” sold online for $5.55 million last week, marking the latest in a list of dinosaur specimens to fetch colossal fees in ...

If you’re a parent you’ve probably tried, at some point, to navigate the supermarket with a trolley, and at least one child in tow. But our new study suggests there was an ancient equivalent, dating ...

Persistent, but popular, social media posts claim there is no proof dinosaurs existed and were created to validate the theory of evolution.

A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal ...