An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

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 ...

The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

A newly identified prehistoric species, Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, has stunned paleontologists by becoming the ...

It started about 65 million years ago. Cenozoic era is made up of two periods : Tertiary period and Quaternary period. The Tertiary period contains the following five epochs : (i) Paleocene ...