Imaging of a 113-million-year-old ant fossil reveals complex, specialized mandibles, showing advanced predatory traits much ...

A newly discovered fossilized giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales is captivating both scientists and the public. This ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

This ancient lake hasn't had any water in it for at least a few millennia, but it's still full of incredible aquatic life ...

The 113-million-year-old fossil was unearthed in the Crato Formation in northeast Brazil. The area is already renowned for ...

Skull of Buettnererpeton bakeri discovered in Wyoming. Credit: Dave Lovelace, CC-BY 4.0 Researchers have studied an exceptional fossil site at Nobby Knob in Wyoming. They found dozens of giant ...

The newly identified specimen was part of a collection of insect fossils from a fossil-rich stone quarry known as the Crato Formation, and housed at the University of São Paulo’s Zoology Museum.

In Big Bend National Park in Texas, geology students uncovered a rare fossil belonging to one of North America's largest dinosaurs. This discovery revives the study of a little-known giant from the ...

Fossils accumulated in the caves because they acted like giant pitfall traps and also lairs of predators such as thylacines, Tasmanian devils, marsupial lions, owls, raptors and the now-endangered ...

Among the most iconic of these ancient insects was Meganeura, a giant dragonfly-like insect. Fossils of Meganeura have been discovered in locations such as France and the United Kingdom, revealing a ...