High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

D inosaurs once roamed in Utah ’s Dinosaur National Monument Park. The evidence is embedded in the rocks, but some enormous – ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

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

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

One of Colorado's most astonishing and coincidental fossil discoveries was found earlier this year, right beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, museum officials announced ...

This marks the first fossil excavations near the Quarry Exhibit Hall since 1924.