Around 121 million years ago, somewhere in modern northeastern China, an early bird took to the skies. If you drew its ...

A landmass that broke away from northwestern Australia about 150 million years ago and drifted north for the next 100 million ...

Two ancient fossils of Longipteryx have revealed unusual features of a prehistoric bird that had teeth but may have lacked ...

A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

Chemical clues preserved in tiny shells reveal that ocean acidification doomed a group of planktonic organisms that have outsized impact on climate Jack Tamisiea Jonathan Chen (right), a former ...

Researchers are conducting an excavation for fiscal 2026 at a fossil site in the Churui district of this northern Japan town ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

Scientists know that dinosaur fossils are millions of years old by dating radioactive elements in rocks that the fossils were found near or in. Soft tissue can exist in fossils for longer than 4 ...

In 1985, he remembered handling a 324 million-year-old fossil. It arrived at the museum from west Texas. At the time, the ...

Las Vegas is known for nightlife, but a nearby desert attraction offers a different daytime outing, with Ice Age history, ...

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