For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly ...

A fossil once believed to belong to the ancient creature Dickinsonia has been debunked. Initially thought to date back around ...

Scientists in Argentina discovered the oldest known long-necked dinosaur, Huayracursor jaguensis, revealing a much earlier ...

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized ...

A 407-million-year-old fossil from Scotland reveals one of Earth’s earliest plant–fungus partnerships, reshaping ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that the fossils in the Birsti Badlands were 70 million years ...

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that caused mass extinction. Scientists analyzed fossils from a ...

The first animals to inhabit the Earth may have been sea sponges, a new study by geochemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suggested. In their work, the researchers linked ...