Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

XI'AN -- A well-preserved giant panda fossil, dating back at least 10,000 years, has been discovered in a cave in Northwest ...

Native Americans grew the seasonal orange gourds before corn or beans. Today, Pennsylvania ranks among the nation's top ...

A fossilized tooth unearthed in Brazil reveals a fearsome apex predator that once ruled prehistoric swamplands—an ancient ...

Ancient sea creatures may have used magnetic particles to navigate. 3D scans reveal how these magnetofossils sensed Earth’s ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

In Switzerland’s Jura Mountains, ancient limestone holds thousands of dinosaur footprints. A gravel route traces their path ...

Archaeologists have uncovered at least 65 ancient tombs in Turkey, which prove the existence of an ancient city mentioned in ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as fossils in marine sediments. An international team has succeeded in mapping the ...