Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

A towering 26-foot-tall fossil, first discovered in Scotland, has been confirmed by scientists as a completely new form of ...

Artificial intelligence is often sold as a tool to speed the clean energy transition, but the technology’s own appetite for ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A crew performing construction work at the Dinosaur National Monument recently got an unexpected glimpse into prehistory – ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to the ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

It’s known as the “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil: A triceratops and a tyrannosaur, skeletons entangled, locked in apparent combat right up until the moment of their mutual demise. Even in the Hell Creek ...

A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned “sword dragon” reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...