In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, researchers uncovered a remarkably complete fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur that lived 108 million years ago. Nicknamed the “precious one,” this teenage pachycephalosaur is ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

They are often massive and generally look almost nothing like the animals we see today. When archeologists look closer at some of the fossils that they find, it becomes clear that there was a huge ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Scientists have also long thought that the earliest leeches were bloodsuckers. All modern leeches, including species that do ...

The announcement of Breugnathair elgolensis is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work, after an international ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University ...

Stromatolites are the oldest life form on the planet, and Mexico is one of the few places on planet Earth where you can see ...

In the pitch-black corridors of Mammoth Cave National Park, deep beneath Kentucky’s rolling hills, scientists have uncovered something astonishing: the fossilized remains of two never-before-seen ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...