It's expected to be a fun-filled, family adventure as the 33rd annual Dinosaur Day stomps into the Texas Energy Museum this ...

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

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

Chinese scientists have come upon evidence of ancient flying lizards. An Early Cretaceous fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows a complete lizard skeleton flanked by imprints of membranous wing ...

The Dino Dayz of summer are here! Join the Sci-Tech Discovery Center for fun dino-themed activities specimens on the GeO-Deck! Create your own imprint fossil, design a Dino and dig for real fossils.

But the Windy City’s “rat hole” may not be what it seems. New research into the identity of the creature that caused a sidewalk imprint when it fell into freshly poured cement suggests the culprit is ...

A fossil of Dickinsonia, an early animal from the Ediacaran period (635-539 million years ago) found in India’s Bhimbetka caves 1 has been revealed to be simply a decayed beehive. The ‘fossil’, ...

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Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

Adiel Klompmaker, curator of the paleontology collection for the UA museums, has named a prehistoric crab species in honor of Nick Saban.