Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

(Reuters) - A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - one day roughly 150 million ...

In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them,” the ...

A breakthrough in nuclear imaging is unlocking coral fossils to reveal 600,000 years of reef and climate evolution.