What in the world is this thing? The formations fo...  ...vil's Corkscrews. Yeah, scientists knew they were fossils of some sort, but what made them: a vine, a tree...

Artists gave us renderings of what dinosaurs looke...  ...rs looked like by imagining flesh on the skeletal fossils that we have. We all know what a T-rex, a stegosa...  ...is supposed to look like. Or we did, until better fossils came along, and threw a wrench into all that art...  ...e descriptions of ancient...

Divers looking for fossil megalodon teeth found a strange skull in the Wand...

This animal is Moschops capensis, an ancestor of m...  ...has a particularly thick skull, according to the fossil evidence, which made it look really weird. What w...  ...rotron scanner was used to analyze Moschops skull fossils to see how really thick they were, and where the...

In the region of Madagascar, 165 million years ago...  ...ndrongobe sakalavae. The newly-named species left fossils that indicate it was a land predator that ate din...  ...latively long legs. A real monster.The fragmented fossilized remains of the horror-croc (nicknamed ‘Raza...  ...than a decade ago, but...

In March of 2011, miners using heavy equipment in...  ...berta found a dinosaur. But this was not just any fossil . A nodosaur had been swept out to sea millions ye...  ...rmor, and even individual scales of its skin were fossilized as well as its bones.The remarkable fossil is...

Homo naledi was very different from archaic humans...  ...homo family tree? A big step would be to date the fossils . Using several different methods, a team from the...  ...years ago or more. The proposed age range for the fossils also overlaps with the early Middle Stone Age, fu...

Got bed bugs? Those pesky insects have been known...  ...millenia (Aristotle even mentioned them), but new fossil records show that the problem went way further ba...

The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...uo;residents” are even cooler. World-famous fossils —like the extinct dire wolf, saber-toothed t...  ...posits of late Pleistocene era (the last ice age) fossils in North America. The fossils date from 10,000...

This stunning bird fossil was found in China in 2008. The species has been...  ...g, even if you didn't know that its feathers were fossilized , too! But what color were those feathers when the...  ...microscopic proteins that had never been used on fossils before.Scientists stu...