Maiasaura dinosaur teeth carry a quiet clue: babies were not eating what adults ate. Tiny wear marks suggest young duck-bills ...

Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.

They looked like traces left behind by tiny creatures, but were most likely microbes.

This mosasaur skeleton is not what we thought. (Zietlow et al., Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 2026) A prehistoric predator to ...

A group of paleontologists unearthed the most complete fossil of a new species of a famed dome-headed dinosaur to date during a dig in Mongolia. The team found the pristine skeleton in the Khuren Dukh ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. Subscribe to our ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science made a surprise discovery during a project on the museum's parking lot: a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil. The fossil was discovered in January as the ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an 'extraordinary' way. Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when ...

Dinosaur footprints at Morija, Lesotho, in 1906. The person standing in front of the rock slab covered with tridactyl fossil footprints is not identified. Photos courtesy of the Institut des Sciences ...