(Reuters) - A rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a find noteworthy for the scientific insight it may offer into the life history of this ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

Driving down the road on Route 5 in South Deerfield, commuters are met with a prehistoric surprise: a giant volcano with a huge dinosaur statue smack in front of a bright-green shack. Most find ...

Christine Wusylko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Pavlo Antonenko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Most kids have a natural ...

Fossils are a great way to peer into history, as they are in some way a 'time capsule,' carrying reflections of a time that has passed. Astronomers have found something similar in space in the form of ...

Enter the fossil gallery of a natural history museum, and you're likely to encounter spectacular skeletons of some of the most manifestly awesome creatures ever to have walked our planet: dinosaurs.

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

“Apex,” the 150-million-year-old stegosaurus, at Sotheby’s Auction House in New York on July 10, 2024. Credit: Shutterstock On July 17, Apex the stegosaurus was sold at Sothebys in New York City for a ...