The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than geology, and preserved fo.

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...