Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

Researchers have identified fossil evidence of a giant python — estimated to exceed 13 feet in length — that once lived on ...

Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, ...

An 11-year-old girl's keen eye led to the discovery of a massive ichthyosaur jawbone fragment in Somerset, England. This find ...

Limestone cliffs and cave systems hold clues to a prehistoric ocean.

Two 10-million-year-old whale fossils have been discovered beneath a beach in Portugal, revealing an ancient lost sea.

When he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter in 1988, Richard Hebda, head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, was not ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a fossil site that’s shaking up everything we thought we knew about fossil ...

Scientists discovered a 13-foot python in Taiwan from a single fossil vertebra, revealing a lost apex predator.

Having a piece of dinosaur history meant visiting museums or joining a fossil dig site. But today, fossil collecting is no ...

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

A remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil offers fresh clues about early bird flight. This ancient creature, a link between dinosaurs ...