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.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

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.

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

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 ...