Most fashionistas like to try and stay ahead of the curve. But a new style involves going quite far the other way - around 70 ...

About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet ...

Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

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

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

Fossilised remains of newly identified dinosaur species and mammal suggest they were both predator and quarry to each other.

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

A creature larger than any modern snake, the Titanoboa sheds light on ancient climate and ecosystems ...

Scientists working in Colombia have discovered the largest snake on the planet, an animal that blows away previous records.