Expert Michael Root spoke with Popular Mechanics to explain how New Jersey’s sandy soils make the quarry the perfect hotspot ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...

Researchers have found fossil evidence of varied creatures wooing and mating, as they continue to search for the telltale ...

Raleigh Parks and Recreation's 'All About Fossils' event educated attendees on fossil formation and significance in North Carolina.

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University of Michigan has helped uncover the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting ...

Our findings challenge what’s currently known about these molecular fossils. Using computer models, we compared a range of P-loops from the P-loop NTPase family to a control group made of the same ...

While hiking through the fossil-rich terrain of North Dakota, three children made a discovery that paleontologists are ...