The study helps fill a major gap in the fossil record. Cyclothone may be tiny, but they play an outsized role in ocean ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Purgatorius makes a comeback in Colorado This early 2026 discovery deserves your undivided attention. Led by Dr. Stephen ...

The fossils came from a site labeled DMNH Loc. 7383, described as a vertebrate microfossil locality in the Corral Bluffs area. It sits in the Denver Formation of the Denver Basin and contains a range ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains ever ...

There are also events about mushrooms, bats and much more at the National Museum of Natural History in September and October Jack Tamisiea A light gives a cast of the Nation’s T. rex’s skull a spooky ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.