The Stratigraphy and Paleontology Hall displays in chronological order a collection of fossils representing each of the geological eras beginning from the late Precambrian period in China.

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

According to NPS, fossil tracks of two small shorebirds showed that the pre-historic animals searched for food in shallow ...

France was once filled with dinosaurs. Today it has one of the most extensive fossil records in Europe, ranging from the late Triassic period to the late Cretaceous, roughly 200 million to 75 ...

Fossilized animal tracks dating back 50 million years have been discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, tracks that offer unprecedented insight into the behaviors of prehistoric animals ...

A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times.

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8 ... among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago. The new study ...