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See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found
La Brea tar pit scientists find mammoths, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves and more in asphalt. Here's...
An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know...
A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says
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The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs didn't impact bird evolution: new study
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Famous lizard fossil exposed as a forgery
A 280-million-year-old fossil from the Italian Alps is pretty much just black paint in the lizard-shaped...
A 380-million-year old predatory fish from Central Australia
A 380-million-year old predatory fish from Central Australia is finally named after decades of digging.
'Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry'
From the CBC article: "What it really does look like is one of those truffula trees...
An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk
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Ancient reptile’s fossilised skin is the oldest ever discovered
Researchers have discovered a tiny 3D fragment of fossilised skin at least 21 million years older...