This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

What animal has the longest gestation period? From salamanders to elephants, here's how long it can take to make a baby.

During the extraction of the overlying rock, which spans many miles and dates to the Early Jurassic period, fossil footprints ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...