A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

An Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Palaeontologists have discovered an incredibly well-preserved fossil skeleton measuring only 1 centimetre long in the Ukhaa Tolgod area of the Gobi Desert. This fossil is believed to be one of the ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a fossil site that’s shaking up everything we thought we knew about fossil ...

Limestone cliffs and cave systems hold clues to a prehistoric ocean.