“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

University of Florida paleontologists had the unique opportunity to send a couple of their small fossils to space at no extra ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

age or burial environment of the fossils in question, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work, published in Scientific ... A small team of archaeologists ...

Wicklesham Quarry was recognised by both Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton as a globally significant fossil site ...

An international research team has revealed the snow leopard's unique evolutionary path by studying rare snow leopard fossils ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

Enter the ‘Dragon Man’It is part of normal scientific practice to revisit old fossils, said Xijun Ni, a professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ... similarly ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.