But these sorts of rocks have no fossils in them. The rocks that have fossils in them are formed very slowly underwater. Water carries sediment - sand and mud – that settles on the bottom of the lake ...

Fossil evidence points to a prehistoric river system that may have supported unusually large Eurypterids. Some specimens ...

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

After an extensive new fossil study, researchers in the UK have confirmed the identity of Praearcturus gigas, which may be ...

Many animals, including humans, rely on their eyes to detect changes in their surroundings. The eyes of vertebrates, animals ...

Known as “Gus,” the dinosaur is one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rexes to ever be discovered. It may fetch ...

Scientists say the buffalo-like species grew up to weigh up to half a ton. The post Fossils reveal how ancient cattle roamed ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including ...

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the ...

A massive renovation will highlight new science in an L.A. institution ...