Imagine digging in your garden and coming across something unexpected: a fossil! Here's what you should do to identify it and ...

The Wisconsin site is famed for its preservation of ancient soft-bodied organisms like leeches—leading Kenneth Gass, a ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Over the past 18 years, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in New Jersey has yielded over 100,000 fossils belonging to more than 100 species. That’s a pretty remarkable fossil hotspot–especially ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

Scientists found a 430-million-year-old leech fossil, Macromyzon siluricus. It shows leeches first lived in oceans and did ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

But carbon dating isn’t typically used when dating prehistoric fossils. Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., founder of the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, explained to Popular Mechanics why ...

People have been fascinated by fossils for centuries, from the days when strange bones were mistaken for dragon remains to the mind-blowing dinosaur discoveries of today. They’re physical links to a ...

When did these blockhead dinosaurs get their domes? A new fossil is “the specimen we have all been waiting for.” In this artist's reconstruction, two pachycephalosaurs from the new species Zavacephale ...

In a state often defined by its agricultural landscape and urban centers, Cedar Bog stands as a living reminder of Ohio’s wild past – a place where rare orchids bloom in surprising abundance, ancient ...