Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

Researchers have named an ancient fossil that was discovered at a park in Leicestershire. Charnia brasieri, which was found at Bradgate Park, would have lived on the ancient seafloor about 560 million ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

Scientists have found proof that a parasite still troubling oysters today was already up to its old tricks nearly half a ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

In an enchanted river valley in Northcentral Pennsylvania, where ancient, mystical mountains are crowned in fog, and the ...

A remarkably preserved spider fossil, Arthrolycosa wolterbeeki, dating over 310 million years old, was discovered in northern ...

Leedsichthys also sported 40,000 needle-like teeth. Yet for its prodigious size and toothiness, it was a gentle giant, like ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Finding dinosaurs is a mixture of knowing where to look and pure luck. It typically involves paleontologists hiking for miles ...

For over two years, park warden Pedro Muagura drove up a dirt road every month to Mozambique's conflict-ridden Mount ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...