A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

Paleontologists in Alberta recently uncovered an incredible find: the giant skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus! This dinosaur, which lived over 70 million years ago, was discovered near Grande Prairie in ...

Claws, like fossil skulls and skeletons, are body fossils ... You can see growth rings in some tree fossils, such as this petrified tree trunk Sometimes ground water dissolves the buried bone or shell ...

Fossils of the T. rex are increasingly becoming unavailable for research because of private collections, scientists warn in ...

A Tyrannosaurus rex researcher has found that there are now more scientifically valuable T. rex specimens in private or ...

"Part of the skull of the Piltdown man ... He was amazed to see that the fossil teeth seemed to have been deliberately ground down with something abrasive to give them a unique wear pattern.

“Recently my mum said to me ‘Sarah if you are going to name this fossil after me, you’d better get on and do it before I am in the ground and fossilized myself.’” Darren lives in ...

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...

The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the early human relative emerged between 100,000 and 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.

this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world’s most important fossil sites.