News from fossils

Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps

Geologists rewrite textbooks with new insights from Cambrian rocks of Grand Canyon

Ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs uncovered in the Alps by melting snow

The world’s best preserved dinosaur had a weird ending, study suggests

Did the World’s Best-Preserved Dinosaurs Really Die in ‘Pompeii’ Events?

Fossil from huge 'terror bird' discovered for the first time in Colombia

Scientists Reveal Rare 450-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Preserved in Glittering Fool’s Gold

The mortality rate of bats at modern-day swimming pools is comparable to that at Messel 47 million years ago

Dinosaur fossils discovered in Hong Kong for the first time | CNN

Mammalian fossils reveal how southern Europe's ecosystem changed during the Pleistocene

Half-a-billion-year-old 'marine Roomba' is earliest known asymmetrical animal

Scientists recreate head of ancient 2.7-meter-long bug

Fossils and fires: Insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia

Here are nine of the most revealing discoveries that have changed our understanding of our early ancestors

Earliest known fossil examples of predatory birds discovered: New species may have hunted like modern hawks and owls

The largest arthropod to ever live finally has a head

A Startling Discovery Found Mandibles in 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils. It Doesn't Make Sense.

Paleontologists unearth possibly the Earth’s largest water reptile

“Exceptional” 320-Million-Year-Old Fossil Ecosystem Could Hold Earliest Signs Insects Laid Eggs

Rock art found in South Africa depicts ‘horned serpent.’ It may be an extinct species