The discovery offers new insight into how fossils are preserved and how Earth naturally stores carbon over long periods of ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint.

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons, in trilobite fossils more than 500 million years ...

About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive with dinosaurs. New research shows that ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling ...

For decades, Deinocheirus was one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in dinosaur science, known only from a pair of enormous arms. Early discoveries left researchers unable to predict what kind of ...