Since the 1960s, fossil discoveries have confirmed the scientific consensus that birds evolved from the group of predatory ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne.

Ida – missing link. Image via Openverse. Unlike body fossils (preserved remains of animal bodies), trace fossils record ancient behaviors through preserved footprints, burrows, nests, and feeding ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.