Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments, a renewed quest is playing out in ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago in the ocean that once covered the region of South Australia.

With distinct tolerances for temperature and drought, fossil junipers play a crucial role in understanding the changing climate of the last Ice Age, and how junipers can survive our climate future, ...

LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery ...

That’s when experts stepped in — unearthing the first mastodon fossils in the Empire State in over 11 years. The discovery is (literally) a big deal. Researchers with the State Museum and SUNY ...